A biopic of billionaire tech entrepreneur
Elon Musk is now in the works after independent studio A24 won the adaptation rights to Walter Isaacson’s recent biography, with Black Swan’s Darren Aronofsky on board to direct. Variety magazine reports that A24 triumphed in a “heated competition” bidding war to acquire Isaacson’s authorised biography Elon Musk , which was published in September. It was heavily criticised in some quarters, with the Guardian describing it as a “dull, insight-free doorstop of a book”, and it generated a number of controversies itself, with Isaacson forced to correct a suggestion that Musk had ordered his Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off to stop a Ukrainian drone attack on
Russian warships. A former chair and CEO of
CNN, Isaacson is the author of a string of biographies, including Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Einstein. His bestselling 2011 biography of
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was adapted into the 2015 biopic of the same title starring Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. Aronofsky most recently directed The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser, for which Fraser won the best
Actor Oscar, while Aronofsky himself was nominated for the best director Oscar for dark ballet drama Black Swan. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to Film Weekly Free newsletter Take a front seat at the cinema with our weekly email filled with all the latest news and all the movie action that matters Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy . We use
Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. after newsletter promotion Musk, 52, was born and raised in
South Africa and, according to Isaacson, suffered “mental torture” at the hands of his father Errol , from who he is estranged. Musk is CEO and chief technology officer of
SpaceX, and chairman and CTO of X Corp (formerly Twitter). He is also CEO of car company
Tesla, but was fined and forced to step down as chairman in 2018 in a deal with US financial regulators after a series of misleading
Social Media posts. Musk is currently ranked at number one on Forbes’ Real Time Billionaires list with a net worth of $223.8bn (£183.2bn).