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A24
secured the rights to Walter Isaacson's biography on the world's
richest person, according to the source, who added the Musk
biopic will be produced by Aronofsky's production company,
Protozoa Pictures.
"Glad Darren is doing it. He is one of the best," Musk said in
an X post on Friday.
The studio has previously worked with the director to produce
his film "The Whale" starring Brendan Fraser that won Academy
Awards for best actor, and best makeup and hair styling.
A24 garnered 18 Academy Award nominations across six films this
year, coming second only to entertainment giant Walt Disney.
Isaacson's book on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was made into an
eponymous movie by Universal in 2015 with Irish actor Michael
Fassbender portraying the late tech tycoon.
The book on Musk was released by private equity firm KKR-owned
book publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster in September.
The deal was highly competitive with top studios and film makers
in contention too, the source told Reuters.
Musk, who is the chief of rocket maker and satellite
communications firm SpaceX, also heads the world's most valuable
automaker Tesla and leads tunnel builder The Boring Company and
brain-chip firm Neuralink.
The billionaire bought social media platform X, formerly known
as Twitter, last year for $44 billion after a six-month saga.
(Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles, Harshita Mary
Varghese and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini
Ganguli)
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