Bleecker Street has unveiled the first official trailer for Musk, the ambitious new documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, offering audiences an intense look at the life, career and extraordinary influence of Elon Musk. Premiering at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, the documentary arrives as Gibney’s latest attempt to look beyond a carefully constructed public image and examine the forces, decisions and controversies surrounding one of the world’s most powerful technology figures.
Musk is no conventional celebrity profile. Running for nearly four hours, the documentary is divided into two parts with an intermission, allowing Gibney plenty of room to trace Musk’s journey across the technology and business worlds. From his early career and rise as an entrepreneur to the enormous empires built around Tesla and SpaceX, the film examines how Musk transformed himself into a global brand while accumulating extraordinary economic and political influence along the way.
The documentary’s approach is particularly pointed, with Gibney questioning the mythology surrounding Musk as a visionary genius and presenting a far more complicated portrait. Through extensive research and reporting, the filmmaker explores the gap between Musk’s public persona and the realities behind some of his biggest claims and accomplishments. The film also examines controversies involving Musk’s behaviour, business practices and relentless pursuit of influence, making the documentary as much about power as it is about technology.
Gibney has built a reputation for tackling complicated subjects and digging beneath polished public narratives, and Musk appears to fit firmly into that tradition. The filmmaker uses Musk’s own words and public statements as part of the examination, while looking at the promises and controversies surrounding companies including Tesla and SpaceX. The documentary also raises broader questions about government funding, technological ambition and whether enormous personal wealth can ultimately place too much power in the hands of a single individual.
What makes Musk especially timely is the sheer scale of its subject’s influence. Musk is no longer simply a technology entrepreneur associated with electric cars and rockets; his reach extends across business, media, politics and popular culture. Gibney's documentary therefore attempts to place that influence under a microscope, exploring how the image of the unstoppable innovator was created and what may exist behind it. The result promises to be a provocative watch rather than a straightforward celebration of entrepreneurial success.
Musk will make its theatrical debut on September 18, 2026, shortly after its Venice Film Festival premiere. With a four-hour running time, an uncompromising journalistic approach and one of the most polarising figures of the modern era at its centre, Alex Gibney’s latest documentary is clearly designed to spark conversation. Whether audiences walk away convinced by Gibney’s argument or ready to challenge it, Musk looks set to put the world's richest and most controversial tech personality under an unusually bright spotlight.
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