Director Gore Verbinski Calls Elon Musk a Traitor Following Online Spat Over Anti-AI Movie
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Director Gore Verbinski has slammed Elon Musk as a traitor and sold his Tesla following an online dispute where the X Movies team pulled out of a press event over a harmless joke about his anti-AI film.
Director Gore Verbinski is not holding back his thoughts on tech billionaire Elon Musk following a petty social media dispute involving the sci-fi comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. The movie stars Sam Rockwell as a traveler from the future trying to stop a rogue, sentient AI from enslaving humanity. Naturally, the film's anti-AI premise did not mesh well with the current ecosystem of X, formerly Twitter, and its generative AI product, Grok.
The friction started when X suffered a brief outage back in January, prompting the official movie account to post a harmless joke offering a free screening to Musk and his fellow tech executives while jokingly blaming Rockwell for the server crash. Instead of laughing it off, the corporate social media team for X Movies retaliated by pulling out of a scheduled press day for the film. When asked about the incident during a recent retrospective interview with Polygon, Verbinski did not mince words regarding Musk, calling him a traitor and revealing that he sold his Tesla in protest.
For players and creators navigating an industry increasingly saturated with automated asset generation and algorithmic corporate oversight, Verbinski's frustration hits close to home. The intersection of entertainment and high tech is messy right now, and watching a major Hollywood director openly clash with platform owners highlights the growing tension around creative autonomy. As digital spaces and social platforms become more corporate, community pushback against unchecked tech consolidation is only going to intensify.
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Original article: Polygon