Musk trailer takes golden chainsaw to the trillionaire's legacy
As Elon Musk attempts to block the film's release and Universal wavers on giving it international distribution, Alex Gibney's documentary nears its domestic debut.
Documentarian Alex Gibney’s four-hour treatise on why Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who can’t seem to stop posting about white genocide, might also be the world’s most dangerous liar arrives next month. And though Musk is definitely not mad about Gibney connecting the dots between his dubious self-mythologizing, plain-as-day white supremacist beliefs, and obscene access to power, the movie has a new trailer to whet appetites for those looking to overload themselves on hating this guy.
As the trailer lays out, Musk has been calling this a “hit piece” and Gibney a “douche” since 2023, presumably when he learned he was the subject of a new film from the director of Going Clear, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, and the original Elizabeth Holmes freak fest, The Inventor. Musk has since gone further, both posting about how “dog shit deserves more respect” than Gibney and having his attorney Alex Spiro send a letter to the production claiming the allegations about Musk’s involvement in the 2024 election were misinformation. The latest trailer isn’t hiding those allegations. “He had told me, ‘I can’t be president, but I can help Trump beat Biden,'” Ashley St. Clair, the mother of two of Musk’s millions of children, says in the trailer. “’I think we’re gonna win!’ He said, ‘I have 10,000 lasers in space. I knew that hours ago.'” St. Clair’s participation has become central to Musk’s crash-out over the film. In 2024, she declined to sign a $40 million NDA after giving birth to Musk’s 13th child and has since spent the last year disclosing the dangers Musk poses to the rest of the world.
For more on why Elon Musk will probably end the world in his desperate bid for white supremacy and to be found funny, check out the new film Musk, only in theaters on October 9.