Jesse Armstrong’s HBO Movie Gets Title, May Premiere Date

The HBO movie from Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has a title and a premiere date — and, it appears, a very tight filming schedule.

The movie — about four billionaire friends who gather during an international crisis — is called Mountainhead. HBO says it will debut on May 31, which also happens to be the final day of Emmy eligibility for the 2024-25 season. Production is set to wrap this week.

That’s an extremely short turnaround for the film, which began filming less than a month ago in Park City, Utah. With such a short schedule, it’s likely that the movie — Armstrong’s first as a director — doesn’t include too many locations or complicated setups. Still, given the cast and auspices, it’s arguably HBO’s highest-profile original movie in several years.

HBO has also released the first photos from Mountainhead, which give some indication of the film’s setting. The photos feature the four billionaires at the center of the story (Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef) inside a well-appointed house (at the top of this post) and in outside ski gear (above), along with an establishing shot of (presumably) the mountaintop house where the lead characters get together:

Hadley Robinson (Winning Time), Andy Daly (Review), Ali Kinkade (Lessons in Chemistry), Daniel Oreskes (Elsbeth), David Thompson (Gotham), Ami MacKenzie and Ava Kostia also star in Mountainhead.

Armstrong wrote and directed Mountainhead and executive produces with Frank Rich, Lucy Prebble, Jon Brown, Tony Roche, Will Tracy, Mark Mylod, and Jill Footlick. Aside from Footlick (Severance, Jack Ryan), all of the EPs worked on Succession with Armstrong.