Musk Slams Gibney's Documentary as 'Hit Piece' — SkimNews
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- Elon Musk slammed Alex Gibney on X, calling the documentarian a 'horrible human' with 'zero integrity' whose movies are 'boring af' and adding that 'dogshit is worth more respect than Gibney.'
- Gibney's four-hour documentary 'Musk' premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, with U.S. theatrical release set for Oct. 16 and an HBO airing later this year.
- The film features interviews with Musk's first wife Justine Musk, Ashley St. Clair (mother of one of his children), Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard, his father Errol Musk, and journalists Kara Swisher and Zoë Schiffer — a roster Musk dismissed as 'a hit list of people who either have an axe to grind or don't even know me.'
- Gibney told Rolling Stone in 2023 he was still 'noodling on Musk' and it was 'too early to tell what the film is going to be,' with the project ultimately taking shape around Musk's Twitter-to-X restructuring and entanglement with Donald Trump's White House.
- Musk has not confirmed viewing the documentary, though he concluded it 'misses, and makes the fatal sin of being boring for 4 hours.'
Why it matters: The documentary lands as Musk faces intensifying public scrutiny over his political alignment with the Trump White House and his X overhaul, and the roster of critical interview subjects — including a co-founder and a former spouse — signals Gibney built a narrative around insiders willing to speak against Musk rather than hagiographic defenders. A four-hour HBO-aired film arriving in October could shape public perception heading into the midterm cycle.
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