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Jessie Armstrong's latest movie features four interesting characters. These are the likely inspirations for the techbros in ...
Mountainhead' has now premiered on HBO Max. Here are the real-life tech bros that inspired the characters played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, and more.
Jesse Armstrong loves to pull fictional stories out of reality. His universally acclaimed TV show Succession, for instance, ...
Director Jesse Armstrong’s HBO movie "Mountainhead" can’t match “Succession,” but its warnings about oligarchs and AI feel ...
HBO's Mountainhead is finally here, and while its four tech CEOs are fictional characters, it is pretty clear that some are ...
As much as Mountainhead director Jesse Armstrong protests that his characters are not based on anyone in real life, the tech ...
While Jesse Armstrong gave the frequently abhorrent Roy family some nuance, the bumbling billionaire characters in his ...
In Jesse Armstrong’s new satire, tech is never morally in the black, and the people who create it are no better than ...
(Macall Polay/HBO) Although “Mountainhead” is being tossed ... Nor is it really worth speculating about which real-life billionaires provided inspiration, but there’s clearly a whole lot ...
His universally acclaimed TV show Succession, for instance, was inspired by real-life media dynasties like the Murdochs and the Hearsts. Similarly, his newest film Mountainhead centers upon ...