“Following Succession, WHICH ENDED TWO Years Ago, The Show’s Creator, Jesse Armstrong, Said He Wasn’s Wealthy. “IT KIND OF WASN’T. I WAS TRYING TO Other Things,” Armstrong Told The Hollywood Reporter on the Carpet for the”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“IT KIND OF WASN’T. I WAS TRYING TO Other Things,” Armstrong Told The Hollywood Reporter on the carpet for the Mountainhead Premiere in New York City Thursday Night About Working on the Film After The Emmy-Winning Series. “Especially, I Thounght, Maybe Something that Wasn’t in the World of Rich People.”
But he explays what changed his mind – and it had a lot to do with the tech bro billionaires that the movie is inspired by. “I Ended Up Doing A Bunch of Research in this Area for A Piece I Wrote, and I COULDN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT The WAY THAT THAT THAT GUYS SPOKE IN PUBLIC,“ HE SAID. “IT Started to BECOM LIKE An Earworm, Like A Song That You Can’T Get Out of Your Head and I Wanted to Write Some Down, So That Was The Germ of The Film.”
The MOVIE, WHICH HAS The TAGLINE: “HUMANITY IS IN THEIR HANDS” Follows A Group of Billionaire Friends Who Reunite at A Mountain Home During a Worldwide Economic Crisis. Randall (Steve Carell), Jeff (Ramy Yossef), Souper (Jason Schwartzman) and Venis (Cory Michael Smith) are the Core Ensemble. Thought not confirMed, some of the billionaires their Characters are believed to be bassed on include Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Marc andressen.
Carell Spoke to Reporters About How It Was “Overwhelming” to Get Inside the Head of Playing Someone Whomingly Has Unlimited Wealth. “WHEN SomeBody Is Worth $ 60- $ 200 Billion, The Actual Amount Doesn’T Even Even Mean Anything Anymore, I Think, To Tese People. It Number, But The Number ITSELF Kind of Means
He Continued to Explain How How His Character Was Affected by Ai and Fell in the Rankings of the Group. “There is a hiericarchy within that, Even Thought the actual Physical Ability to Buy Things Doesn’s end up being third is not a good Thing, ”he said. “SO, that’s a huge component of all of these Characters, WHETHER they have to admit it or.”
For Smith, The Preparation Was “TRUNCATED” as It Was Only A Few Weeks from When the Actors Were Cast Thr. “The PROCESS REALLY WAS HAVING Someone Sit with Me Entire Week, So for Six to Eight Hours a Day I COURCE [where the movie was filmed] SO I COULD TRY TO MEMORIZE The WHOLE Script. ”
WHEN IT CAME TO DEELOPING HIS Character, Smith Said, “There’s Like a Whole Vocabulary and Language Thatse Guys Have Like Jargon That I Do Not Personally Make Sure that there was a real Proficiency with Language and the Speed. ”
Though it was wasn’t all work. The Cast Made Sure to Balance Enough Play, Too. “We did some very late-night John Wick Movies. We watched one and two, Ramy and I, “HE QUIPPED.“ We Just Wanted to See Some Really Violent Films. ”
Armstrong Shared Who Timelines of the Film – and Turning It Around SO Quickly After Wrapping Photography Last MONT – WAS IMPORTANT. “WHEN PEOPLE SEE IT, they’ll Realize is about this World that We Live in Right Now and the Tech World Changes So Quickly,“ He Said. “I was keen to writ it and for people to see it in the Same Sort of Bubble of Time.”
Mountainhead Will Premiere on HBO and Begin Streaming On Max on May 31.