Alex Gibney’s New Documentary Offers an Unflinching Look at Elon Musk

Filmmaker Alex Gibney has released the first trailer for Musk, a two-part, four-hour documentary probing the life of Elon Musk. Rolling Stone described the film as “a nonfiction horror movie” following its festival premiere earlier this month.

“Elon Musk is one of the most controversial figures in the world. So I decided to make him the subject of my next film,” Gibney says in the trailer’s voiceover. “But it soon became clear: Elon would not participate.”

The two-minute trailer quickly addresses many of Musk’s controversies — from unfulfilled promises about colonizing Mars and inflated claims about his Tesla founding role to his alignment with “Dark MAGA” politics and fathering children with numerous women labeled “the Breeders.” The trailer also previews a new song by David Byrne, written specifically for the documentary and eligible for Oscar consideration.

“Musk now views unlimited power as his natural possession. Musk‘s power comes from the cumulative way that it gathers so much of what we already know about Musk and how he’s warped modern society, and presents it less as isolated incidents, scams, frauds, bad-faith arguments, and god complexes than the portrait of a sociopath behind the wheel,” David Fear wrote in his Rolling Stone review.

“Gibney said in a press conference that he doesn’t believe the story is over and the game is lost. Yet it’s hard not to walk out of his magnum opus and not feel a deep sense of despair. We may not know exactly how we got here, but we’re here.”

Musk, described by production company Bleecker Street as “an incisive look behind the legend of Elon Musk, the wealthiest, and most unchecked, man on the planet,” arrives in theaters in October.

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