The rollercoaster lifetime of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is about to be made right into a film helmed by Oscar-nominated The Whale director Darren Aronofsky.
The biopic, which is in growth at studio A24 – recognized for grotesque movies together with Midsommar and Heriditary – will likely be primarily based on Walter Isaacson’s approved biography of Musk, which was launched in September.
Selection stories there was ‘heated competitors’ to choice the biography from studios and filmmakers.
Musk addressed the information on X on Friday, writing in response to a publish by X Information Every day: ‘Glad Darren is doing it. He is likely one of the greatest.’
The creator, who beforehand wrote an exhaustive biography of the equally controversial Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was given unprecedented entry to the Tesla and SpaceX proprietor over greater than two years.
On display: The rollercoaster lifetime of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is about to be made right into a film helmed by Oscar-nominated The Whale director Darren Aronofsky
Isaacson noticed Musk go about his each day life and carried out interviews with him and members of his household to construct an image of his life.
His ebook chronicles Musk’s rise to fame via his SpaceX ventures, promoting one million automobiles via Tesla, and changing into the richest man alive.
Isaacson’s explosive Elon biography is because of be launched in September 2023
Nevertheless, the author’s insights into 52-year-old Musk’s personal life — notably his tortured relationship with an oppressive father and a seemingly warped inclination to seek out related discord in his romantic life — are revealing for a world struggling to know the enigmatic and astonishingly influential tycoon.
‘Musk was not bred for home tranquillity. Most of his romantic relationships contain psychological turmoil,’ observes Isaacson.
Isaacson’s much-anticipated memoir was plugged as a deep-dive into the darkish psychology of the Twitter tsar and his household.
Isaacson mentioned chronicling Musk’s life turned ‘a hell of much more of a rollercoaster journey’ after he purchased Twitter and rebranded it as X – which can also be when the darker aspect of his persona started to emerge extra clearly within the public sphere.
Musk is value an estimated $231billion.
Musk first moved to Silicon Valley on the age of 24 with no penny to his identify, his father Errol flogged his yacht and recreation reserve in South Africa to scrape collectively £23,000 to assist arrange his son.
Acclaimed: Darren is pictured proper with The Whale Oscar winner Brendan Fraser
Seal of approval: Musk commented on the pending biopic on Friday
Isaacson noticed Musk’s day-to-day life for 2 years, together with throughout his Twitter takeover when he fired greater than half the workforce
SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Canadian musician Grimes in 2018 at a SpaceX competitors
Spouse two: British actress Talulah Riley who he married in 2010, divorced two years later and married once more in 2013 – pictured 2014
4 years later, Elon’s first dotcom firm Zip2 bought for £250 million.
Right this moment, Musk’s formidable enterprise empire consists of the electrical automotive firm Tesla (value virtually a trillion {dollars}), the house exploration firm SpaceX (which has 24,000 satellites circling Earth) and Twitter, renamed X.
The South African-born billionaire’s method to kids is much more impenetrable. He believes that humanity wants to supply offspring at a far faster price, or civilisation will crumble.
Though it was beforehand assumed that he has ten kids by three ladies, the ebook has revealed that he has had an eleventh together with his former on-off girlfriend Claire Boucher, alias Canadian pop star Grimes.
Within the grand custom of Musk’s style for outlandish kids’s names, the little boy, born in June final yr, is known as Techno Mechanicus.
There are two ex-wives, Justine (mom to 6 of his brood, the eldest of who, Nevada, died of sudden toddler demise syndrome aged ten weeks) and British actress Talulah Riley who he married in 2010, divorced two years later and married once more in 2013.
There are two ex-wives, Justine (mom to 6 of his brood, the eldest of who, Nevada, died of sudden toddler demise syndrome aged ten weeks) and British actress Talulah Riley who he married in 2010, divorced two years later and married once more in 2013.
