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Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Biopic: Casting Announcement Imminent, 'Heroine' Will Be Daughter Lisa
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Not optimistic on this, but ....
At the same time? I think most of us know PLENTY about Jobs' achievements in the computing world. (Those who still have no clue are the ones willfully ignoring "tech history" due to a lack of interest in it, so can't see how many would be the target audience for yet another Jobs-centric movie anyway?)
The part most of us really don't know much about is Steve's family and personal life. This might actually be THE place to make a good movie story out of his life .... Focus on the part of the story that hasn't been told yet.
At the same time? I think most of us know PLENTY about Jobs' achievements in the computing world. (Those who still have no clue are the ones willfully ignoring "tech history" due to a lack of interest in it, so can't see how many would be the target audience for yet another Jobs-centric movie anyway?)
The part most of us really don't know much about is Steve's family and personal life. This might actually be THE place to make a good movie story out of his life .... Focus on the part of the story that hasn't been told yet.
To say no role is too much, I mean they released The Lisa as a computer.... Have you even read the book?!?! Emotionally, it took a toll on him. She was very important to his story and the person he is... I mean he rejected his own daughter?
Any word on Laurene Powell Jobs contributing to this?
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That is a damn good idea.
One I heard kicked around was a "Forrest Gump" style of movie. The whole Apple story is seen through the eyes of one long-term Apple employee hired right around the launch of the Apple ][.
He just keeps on doing non-management jobs keeping the place together. Many felt he should be that prototype tech that had every major product Apple shipped first handled on his HP surplus electronic bench. One piece of drama comes about when a few want to get rid of his "old bench" for new equipment but it is kept for sentimental and symbolic reasons. He has no real ego but a lot of common sense keeps him around while sitting on stock options and his Cupertino tract home while the community grows in wealth around him.
He knows more people in the place than any executive as the place is fought over. Since he has been there for so long, he gets the ear of many executives as they come. He's also one of the first people Steve Jobs talks to while returning to Apple.
Love to see either of these made.
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That is a damn good idea.
One I heard kicked around was a "Forrest Gump" style of movie. The whole Apple story is seen through the eyes of one long-term Apple employee hired right around the launch of the Apple ][.
He just keeps on doing non-management jobs keeping the place together. Many felt he should be that prototype tech that had every major product Apple shipped first handled on his HP surplus electronic bench. One piece of drama comes about when a few want to get rid of his "old bench" for new equipment but it is kept for sentimental and symbolic reasons. He has no real ego but a lot of common sense keeps him around while sitting on stock options and his Cupertino tract home while the community grows in wealth around him.
He knows more people in the place than any executive as the place is fought over. Since he has been there for so long, he gets the ear of many executives as they come. He's also one of the first people Steve Jobs talks to while returning to Apple.
Love to see either of these made.
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I see...
well I forgive the Sport Night ones for sure (which were involved in the majority of the duplicates) because that show was ahead of its time, cancelled pre-mature, and was unwatched and unknown by most people even though it was pure genius.
Its almost like the dialogue from the his golden era deserved to be re-hashed now that his stuff is more appreciated.
Im not mad at that, thats just how the work goes.
I wasn't aware of that expose tho lol. Pretty funny.
One of the best Steve Jobs stories I know comes from a MacWorld keynote where some of the timing did not go as planned but it didn't break the audience. The biggest flub came about from a third party software exec demo-ing on stage to not exactly the planned script.
Backstage, Steve was pissed and did his usual verbal assault on the guy. As Steve Jobs was walking away, this third party software exec screamed to him, "You're beautiful when you're angry!"
Many backstage said it is the only time they ever heard Steve Jobs laugh.
Epic.
See this is the type of stuff I would want to explore. The get-****-done-at-all-costs-Steve, the psycho-ness that is excused by immense success. The success almost being due to it.
And the lessons we learn from that and how it influences our own choices in life that we might relate to.
Geez...Negativity anyone? Will this movie perfectly explore the life of Steve Jobs in it's entirety? NO... Will it get every single nuance right without the slightest falter? NO... Will it be an exact rendering of his psychological profile? NO...
Will it be a well made movie with something valid to say? YES. Will millions of people watch this movie and enjoy it? YES...Naysayers begone.
Will it be a well made movie with something valid to say? YES. Will millions of people watch this movie and enjoy it? YES...Naysayers begone.
So he uses his own bits where they make sense in different stories that he writes. A lot of writers and artists have their own style and particulars that are present across a lot of their work. In this case it's a bit more in your face in a sense but it's still pat of all that. And not sure how using your own words and dialog particulars in various places is plagiarism since it's your own work to begin with. Some might say it's not as creative perhaps, but that's still fairly subjective and certainly doesn't mean that something is being stolen from somewhere.
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Plenty of people are interested. While plenty of others might not be. Just like many other things in life.
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Sounds like a lot of his life story is being ignored or overlooked in that diatribe.
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But the vast majority didn't.
Plenty of movies made about people who are dead or alive. Many of them are interesting and even successful. And the problem with any of that is what again?
I think the movie would be better with an obscure actor playing Jobs. Obviously a good one, but one that looks like him and one that is unknown (for the most part). Leonardo or Bale would be too much IMO. I mean hell, why not George Clooney. Their obviously looking for big names. Hopefully they will find someone who is less known.
I thought that successful coders strive to maximize code reuse all the time!
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If this movie is successful, it will spawn a trilogy with sequel and either prequel or midquel.
Agree, there are plenty of actors where this role can be their bus out.
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I keep on thinking why are they doing it as a traditional film release? I can easily see this being a web-series.
Yea
Why should we care about a guy who is the reason this site you're posting on exists.
Why should we care about the fact that the best screenwriter of our generation is making it?
Because there have been a lot of garbage movies about him and we know this one will be?
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Seems like you could care less.