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HBO's Succession is a perfect example of great television, and Cillian Murphy's thoughts on it make it even more interesting.
Mountainhead sees Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's return with another fast-paced tale of obscenely wealthy people squabbling whilst the world collapses. The writer of the hit series about a ...
One thing Mountainhead portrays so well is the amount of antipathy that’s baked into this Silicon Valley C-suite vibe, and the extreme levels of isolation that these people have. Even if they’re ...
Jesse Armstrong has been thinking a lot about billionaires. The creator of HBO's Succession has written and directed a new movie — Mountainhead — about four uber-rich leaders of tech. They've ...
It was late November, just after the election, and Jesse Armstrong was trying to resist telling another story about unfathomably rich tycoons. It’d been less than two years since “Succession ...
Written and directed by “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong, “Mountainhead” may share a milieu (the ultra-rich) and a comic rhythm (fast, verbose, profane) ...
Jesse Armstrong, one of the UK's most successful screenwriters, is not one to rest on his laurels. Hot off the back of his hit show Succession, which followed the twists and turns in the lives of ...
Years before Succession and Mountainhead, Jesse Armstrong co-wrote In the Loop, a fantastic comedy that earned him an Oscar nomination. It also features a very angry Peter Capaldi.
Following his HBO series Succession, Jesse Armstrong's latest project, Mountainhead, is a film about four tech billionaires whose mountain retreat is disrupted by a global catastrophe.