How 'Musk' director Alex Gibney became a critic
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By Steve Inskeep, Olivia Hampton

Thursday, October 8, 2026 • 4:45 AM EDT

Heard on Morning Edition
Some time ago, Alex Gibney got curious about how Elon Musk accumulated impossibly vast amounts of wealth and power.

So the Oscar-winning documentarian did what he does best, spending four years of deep research into Musk's world to create a film that's nearly as many hours long, each minute kept riveting by a trove of dreadful facts, videos, legal documents and interviews with people close to the tech entrepreneur.

"I started out as — if not an admirer — at least somebody who is sort of interested in what he was doing and liked it," Gibney told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep.

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