The creator of ‘Succession’ laughs again from the millionaires for HBO Max

From the foreground to the way of acting of its protagonists, the first advance of Mountainhead He only reminds us of Succession. Something apparently normal if we consider that this new film comes from the hand of itself showrunner of the HBO Max series, Jesse Armstrong. The resemblance is such that in fact, we would not miss anything that at some point we discovered that both the serial fiction of four seasons and this last film belong to the same universe. At the moment all this is pure speculationbut what is certain is that if you enjoyed the ins and out satire about the great millionaires in the world.

Amstrong returns to what his home was like his home as a streaming platform. Of course, this time we are talking about your debut in the feature film format. According to the main premise that he himself has been in charge of writing, the tape follows ACutatro technological magnates With a combined net worth of 400 billion dollarswhile an alpine mansion gather to spend a weekend of skiing and poker. But, unfortunately, the escape soon derails when they are fighting with each other for a global collapse that could be amplified by their own social media platforms in property. Of course, Amstrong returns to multiple known faces. With Steve Carrell (The Office), Jason Schwartzman (The Gran Budapest hotel), Cory Michael Smith (Carol) y Ramy Youssef (Poor creatures) interpreting the four -lengths of multimillionaires protagonists. With a proposal that apparently concentrates only in a space and its surroundings, Mountainhead It will not go through cinemas and it will therefore be a premiere exclusively within the Max catalog. Under a brand that usually has its stars products in the series format … Will you beat the transmission service records in the film category?

A trawler of ‘Mountainhead’

In addition to the starting quartet, the rest of the casting of Mountainhead It is completed with Andrew Daly (Modern Family), Hadley Robinson (MUJERCITAS), Daniel Oreskes (Devil with the devil), David W. Thompson (Blue Ruin) y ali kinkade (Runaways), among others. Photography is in charge of Marcel Zyskindresponsible for the visual section of the two Viggo Mortensen tapes as director; Falling (2020) y Until the end of the world (2023).

Although it seems that the approach of teaser Trailer seems to point to an Amestrong in the search for new stories, his fixation in the dysfunctionality of The wealthy characters and families Help relieve all those fans of Succession that shouts a new season of the series. Nevertheless and as he told him at the time Variety In 2023, when people read the script, nobody pointed out that it was a mistake to end the fourth season of the Roy’s business inheritance: «That’s how I introduced it to my scriptwriters, with the hope that they would be dismissed to see how to make more seasons, because I love working with these people. I think the form of the series transmits a feeling of fullness and success ».

Before Mountainheadwe will see Carrell co -starring the four stations, the new series created by the actress Tina Fey For Netflix. Meanwhile, Schwartzman will premiere the tape Oh. What. Fun from Amazon MGM and Smith will be in the new of Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value. After the end of Succession, Armstrong has not gone too well in the script field, because neither The day will arrive (2019) or the remake A height disaster (2020) They have managed to set within the opinion of the specialized press.

Mountainhead will be released in the American HBO Max catalog next May 31while to see it in Spain we will have to wait a few hours, with an official date marked on June 1. Be that as it may, the tape is one of the great streaming premieres of this summer. In the billboard, for those dates at the box office and almost summer it will have large blockbusters of the level of Impossible mission: final sentence (May 23), Lilo y Stitch (May 23) or The Phoenician plot (May 30).