Exclusive: Mountainhead cast interviews with Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef
Streaming on Max starting on May 31st, 2025 is the HBO film Mountainhead, written and directed by Jesse Armstrong, creator of the Emmy Award successful series "Succession."
The film centers on four billionaire tech company CEOs (Steve Carell as Randall, Jason Schwartzman as Souper (Hugo Van Yalk), Cory Michael Smith as Venis, and Ramy Youssef as Jeff), who escape to the mountains for a vacation at a glorious massive condo (filmed in Park City, Utah). But then the world starts to fall apart and descend into an economic collapse, and they stay up there having a blast. Not sure what happens next – do they start turning against each other? Only one way to find out.
Hadley Robinson (Winning Time), Andy Daly (Review), Ali Kinkade (Lessons in Chemistry), Daniel Oreskes (Elsbeth), David Thompson (Gotham), Amie MacKenzie and Ava Kostia also star in Mountainhead.
According to Vulture, “Youssef’s character, Jeff, owns a company that has just devised a filter that can identify and block hyperrealistic generative-AI images. Smith’s character, Venis — rhymes with tennis, not the appendage — is the founder and current owner of Traam, a Facebook-esque social-media platform.
He desperately wants Jeff’s tech because Traam is being overrun by politically and theologically inflammatory false images that have triggered violent outbreaks around the world. Carell plays Randall, a.k.a. Dark-Money Gandalf, a venture capitalist and father figure to the others (Jeff even calls him Papa Bear). Jeff, Venis, and Randall are all worth billions. The fourth guy, Schwartzman’s Hugo Van Yalk, is the only one in the group who isn’t a billionaire. The others have nicknamed him Souper, short for Soup Kitchen.”
The film was executive produced by Jesse Armstrong, Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod, and Jill Footlick. Emmy Award winning composer Nicholas Britell (Succession, Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Don’t Look Up, Cruella, The Big Short, Vice) scored the film.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef on Mountainhead
