Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary releases first full trailer

Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, about Elon Musk, has released its first full trailer as the film prepares for a planned U.S. theatrical rollout in October. The nearly four-hour film is scheduled to open in New York and Los Angeles on October 9, followed by a nationwide release on October 16, according to the reported schedule. Another account lists September 18 as the U.S. release date, a discrepancy that has not been resolved. The trailer presents the documentary as an examination of Musk’s businesses, public image and political activity. It includes material on Tesla, SpaceX, his acquisition of Twitter, later renamed X, and his relationship with Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency. The film is directed by Gibney, whose previous documentaries have addressed subjects including Enron, Scientology and Elizabeth Holmes. Accounts describe the documentary as nearly four hours long and say it includes an intermission. One report specifies a runtime of three hours and 45 minutes. The film is structured in two parts, with one account describing the first as focused on Tesla and SpaceX and the second on Twitter and Trump.