India, June 20 -- Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's upcoming film Artificial, based on the life of OpenAI founder Sam Altman, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM Studios. According to new reports, the film, which stars Andrew Garfield as the controversial OpenAI CEO, will be shopped to other studios now. Variety reported that the move comes at a time when the film is being described as 'almost finished', meaning the search for new backers may delay its post-production and release.

Amazon MGM Studios announced on Friday that they were backing out from producing the film, adding that they were 'closely working' with the film's team to find it 'a new home'.

Variety quoted a spokesperson for Amazon as saying, "We have the utmost respect and...