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Jesse Armstrong Wasn’t Planning to Make ‘Mountainhead’ After ‘Succession’ but “Couldn’t Stop Thinking About” Tech Bro Billionaires

The film, which stars Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman and Cory Michael Smith as billionaires in crisis, is his first project following the Emmy-winning TV show. However, he told The Hollywood Reporter why it's not what he intended.

Following Succession, which ended two years ago, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, said he wasn’t sure he wanted to make his follow-up project — and directorial debut — be another story about the wealthy. I was trying to do other things,” Armstrong told The Hollywood Reporter on the carpet for the Mountainhead premiere in New York City Thursday night about working on the film after the Emmy-winning series. Randall ( Steve Carell), Jeff (Ramy Youssef), Souper ( Jason Schwartzman) and Venis ( Cory Michael Smith) are the core ensemble.

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