After taking aim at Hollywood’s obsession with superheroes in The Franchise, Armando Iannucci and Jon Brown are setting their sights on an even bigger target: billionaire tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Yes, the minds behind Veep and The Franchise are cooking up a new film that dives into the world of unchecked social media power, and it sounds like it’s going to be as sharp, satirical, and hilarious as ever.

Iannucci spilled the beans during an interview with The Movie Dweeb, where he revealed that he and Brown have been developing a film set in the world of tech overlords. “Well, I’m always interested in where power and influence is,” Iannucci explained. “Social media is something actually that Jon and I have been working on together, on a film script which we hope to shoot next year, but set in that world of, you know, the next generation of your Zuckerbergs and your Musks and all these people.”

In classic Iannucci style, he added a dash of political and social critique, pointing out the absurdity of how “so much of our opinion and information is controlled by these people who have never been trained in the ways of being global influencers.” He added, “It’s just happened, and somehow they have to kind of see if they can rise to the occasion or not.” Translation: expect a film that absolutely skewers the unchecked power and bizarre behavior of the tech world’s most notorious billionaires.

Jon Brown, meanwhile, couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Zuckerberg’s latest persona shift. “Did you see that Mark Zuckerberg’s not sorry, by the way? He’s now decided he’s not sorry and that the last 20 years of apologizing he now resents,” Brown joked. “He’s grown his hair and he’s suddenly—he’s clearly going through a midlife crisis, or he’s gone back to 18 again and wants to just do it again. Because now he thinks, ‘I could do all this and I’m untouchable now.’ Like any Roman Emperor, he now thinks he’s a god.”

This announcement comes hot on the heels of The Franchise, Iannucci and Brown’s HBO satire that takes a hilarious and scathing look at the inner workings of a struggling superhero movie studio. Starring Himesh Patel, Aya Cash, Jessica Hynes, Billy Magnussen, and Daniel Brühl, the show explores the absurdity of modern Hollywood and the superhero-industrial complex.

The Franchise is set to debut on HBO (and likely Sky/Now in the UK) later this year, promising a meta take on the film industry’s reliance on capes, CGI, and cinematic universes. Now, with their next project, Iannucci and Brown are shifting from Hollywood’s creative bankruptcy to Silicon Valley’s power-hungry chaos. If The Franchise is anything to go by, their tech-world satire is bound to be razor-sharp and painfully funny.

So, if you loved Veep, The Thick of It, or The Franchise, prepare for another Iannucci-led takedown—this time aimed at the tech moguls who run our digital lives. Let’s just hope Musk and Zuckerberg have a sense of humor (though, let’s be honest, that’s unlikely).

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