He is arguably the richest and most influential person on Earth, but this three-part series argues his ambitions go far beyond this planet.
Elon Musk is so omnipresent in our culture you might imagine there’s nothing we don’t already know about him – or anything more weto know. But this three-part documentary from the BBC and 72 Films feels a lot like essential viewing.
Even the electric vehicles and the systems to charge them are part of the plan. “You can’t go up there and plug something in,” Blankenship says. “There’s a much bigger picture in Elon’s mind than what mere mortals are aware of today.”There are other ways of understanding Musk, of course, and the series pokes and prods at them. His mother Maye, a model and entrepreneur, has a one-line explanation for everything Elon.
“It was the first thing that went right,” says Riley. “Elon went from being ridiculed to suddenly his word was gospel.”
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