Come early October, two of Silicon Valley’s biggest titans will have to answer to the silver screen.

Two scathing, star-studded cinematic projects are scheduled to premiere in theaters and platforms on Oct. 9, when Academy Award-winning filmmakers take on Big Tech’s cultural dominance, corporate ethics, and individual legacies.

The first punch lands courtesy of Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, whose near-four-hour critique “Musk” pulls back the curtain on the polarizing life of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX head Elon Musk.

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, the documentary probes deeply into Musk’s South African roots, his controversial acquisition of Twitter (now X), and his influential role in national politics.

However, the film’s most jaw-dropping moments zero in on his volatile personal life. Ex-partner Ashley St. Clair — who shares a child, Romulus, with Musk — delivers a series of explosive on-camera revelations. St. Clair alleges that Musk aggressively courted her to have children, claiming he expressed a desire to create a “legion of children” ahead of a forecasted “civil war.” She further likened his aggressive procreation efforts to a “Gatling gun of sperm in his DMs.”

Beyond personal relations, the documentary exposes intense legal warfare behind the scenes. St. Clair claims she turned down a $40 million non-disclosure agreement tied to child support negotiations to speak her truth, a claim Musk has denied on X, labeling the documentary a “hit piece.”

Gibney revealed at a post-screening Q&A that Musk threatened legal action over the film, dryly noting the hypocrisy from a self-proclaimed “free-speech absolutist.” On stage, Gibney pushed back on the founder narrative itself, noting that Musk was neither the sole founder of Tesla nor the primary inventor behind SpaceX.

If Gibney’s documentary lands the first blow, Aaron Sorkin’s high-stakes legal drama “The Social Reckoning” delivers the knockout.

Also set for release on Oct. 9, the Sony Pictures feature marks Sorkin’s return to the world of Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg following his Oscar-winning 2010 hit, “The Social Network.”

“The Social Reckoning” dramatizes the historic 2021 Facebook leak, centering on whistleblower Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison) and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White). Jeremy Strong steps into the role of Zuckerberg as the plot unpacks internal documents proving the tech giant knowingly prioritized corporate profits over user safety and mental health.

Fearing intense pushback from Meta, Sony took extraordinary precautions to bulletproof the project against legal threats. Speaking on The New York Times podcast “The Interview,” Sorkin revealed that Sony hired an independent outside law firm to rigorously fact-check every line of the script.

“You have this phenomenally powerful company with limitless resources who can sue you at the drop of a hat,” Sorkin said, confirming Meta sent legal warnings to the studio. “The irony wasn’t lost on anybody that we were doing a thorough fact-check of a movie about a company unwilling to do the same thing.”

As Silicon Valley grapples with shifting public sentiment, regulatory scrutiny, and political fallout, Hollywood’s early October double-header marks an unprecedented cultural reckoning, proving that even tech’s wealthiest innovators cannot control the narrative once the cameras start rolling.