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Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Biopic: Three 30-Minute Scenes Taking Place Before Three Product Launches
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I just can't help feel that having it feature solely on three product launches belittles the work Isaacson put into writing the book and just tosses aside so much more about Jobs that could be shown on screen.
To base a movie, based on a biography, around nothing more than product launches and backstage action just seems like a huge waste of some fantastic source material.
What about Sculley? What about NeXT? What about Pixar? What about his close bond with Ive? Do we really have to see three keynotes reenacted as nothing more than backstage footage?
To base a movie, based on a biography, around nothing more than product launches and backstage action just seems like a huge waste of some fantastic source material.
What about Sculley? What about NeXT? What about Pixar? What about his close bond with Ive? Do we really have to see three keynotes reenacted as nothing more than backstage footage?
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Bill Gates had a video appearance at MacWorld (96?), I believe the final details were worked out between Jobs and Gates just prior to the event kicking off. Sounds like a perfect scene for Sorkins idea.
yes that would be great!
Good thinking.
I just think people always associate those two and I think it will make for good film
I wasn't aware this is the same guy that did The Social Network so I no longer am as doubtful about this.
Looking forward to it.
eh, just read the biography and the other true stories published about Jobs. I think a movie will lose too much detail....
All book readers think that about every movie that is made that was also a book.
Thats why only pop up books and scratch and sniff for me
Hmmm, the original Mac, the NeXT cube, and the iPod.
The sequel can therefore have the Apple II, Macintosh II and iPhone (Newton II) as the emphasis.
The end of the trilogy? Apple I, Mac Cube, Apple TV with a segment on what they all morphed into. By the time that is shown we will know what Apple TV becomes. Cube -> Mini and AI became the Mac ecosystem.
Rocketman
The sequel can therefore have the Apple II, Macintosh II and iPhone (Newton II) as the emphasis.
The end of the trilogy? Apple I, Mac Cube, Apple TV with a segment on what they all morphed into. By the time that is shown we will know what Apple TV becomes. Cube -> Mini and AI became the Mac ecosystem.
Rocketman
Make it original mac (the history of apple), The cube (the fail), iPod (the start of something new), then end with Jobs about to go on stage with the iPhone....then cut... real stock footage of Jobs announcing the iPhone ("the problem is with the bottom third down here", "250 inventions and boy have we patented it" "an internet communicator, a phone, a widescreen ipod", "today, Apple reinvents the phone.").
done
edit: hot damn i should be a writer, director, multimillionaire movie maker
done
edit: hot damn i should be a writer, director, multimillionaire movie maker
well he was diagnosted with cancer in 2003. Something could be mentioned about it. Like perhaps keeping it under wraps or something.
Who knows. All speculation.
I was being sarcastic in an earlier post, but I really do think Sorkin can pull off a great film here.
Even if centered around notable product launches, I imagine it will most certainly involve flashback cuts.
Think about the movie "Walk The Line". Most of the film is a series of flashbacks nested in a sequence where Johnny Cash is about to go onstage at Folsom Prison.
We shall see.
Even if centered around notable product launches, I imagine it will most certainly involve flashback cuts.
Think about the movie "Walk The Line". Most of the film is a series of flashbacks nested in a sequence where Johnny Cash is about to go onstage at Folsom Prison.
We shall see.
I look forward to it, if anybody can make it work it's Sorkin... Although centered around 3 events I think it will feature some heavy back-story about what lead to that specific moment, he seems to do that a lot and that's what I like about his style - take The Social Networks as an example, the "main scene" was the legal proceedings with the Winklevoss Twins - he did the same thing through several episodes of The West Wing (most prominently in "In The Shadow Of Two Gunmen") and in a couple of The Newsroom episodes...
Sorkin could build a time machine, follow Jobs around with a hidden camera and let us watch months of continuous completely unedited 360° footage, and there will still be complaints.
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