4 tech “geniuses” watch the trendy world they helped create descend into chaos within the new teaser for Mountainhead, the upcoming HBO film from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
The movie stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith as billionaire associates who collect for a luxurious weekend away within the mountains. However as these 4 moguls attempt to take pleasure in their spoils, their telephones quickly begin blowing up with information of crises all over the world — monetary collapse, political instability, violence within the streets, all that great things.
Similar to on Succession, the delicate egos, myopic intelligence, and delusional self-righteousness of those uber-wealthy nuts go haywire fairly rapidly. And, as is Armstrong’s expertise, the entire thing feels without delay a very outrageous and disconcertingly believable.
“This can be a severe second, I believe that’s the reason I’m so enthusiastic about these atrocities,” Carell’s Randall deadpans at one level. “I’m fascinated about all the people who find themselves not killing one another!”
In the meantime, Youssef’s Jeff scolds Smith’s Venis for making billions off a platform that’s “infected a unstable scenario, circulating unfalsifiable deepfakes, large fraud, market instability.”
And Schwartzman’s Souper is simply involved about poker and dinner: “Are we nonetheless imagining we’re gonna play? As a result of I’ve a six-man, line-caught turbot.”
Together with the movie’s core solid, Mountainhead will function Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, Daniel Oreskes, David Thompson, Amie MacKenzie, and Janine and Ava Kostia. Mountainhead — which marks Armstrong’s function directorial debut, and first main venture since Succession led to 2023 — is ready to premiere on HBO and Max Might 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
