Aaron Sorkin on Jobs Biopic: Casting Announcement Imminent, 'Heroine' Will Be Daughter Lisa

[diazj3]

As long as it's interesting and people enjoy it, what's the issue again?

feels weird? have you seen The Newsroom? it sucks in a very special way (it's bad).

I mean... just take a look at this sketch making fun of Aaron Sorkin's writing style:

(brilliant, Seth Meyers nailed it) Now, Imagine a Jobs movie in the same vein!

So... this will surely suck too. And dramatize it? For money. Off a recent guy's death?

Weird. What we're being fed through the media...

Anyway.

 

[C DM]

feels weird? have you seen The Newsroom? it sucks in a very special way (it's bad).

I mean... just take a look at this sketch making fun of Aaron Sorkin's writing style:


YouTube: video


(brilliant, Seth Meyers nailed it) Now, Imagine a Jobs movie in the same vein!

So... this will surely suck too. And dramatize it? For money. Off a recent guy's death?

Weird. What we're being fed through the media...

Anyway.

I've seen most of his stuff and like it just fine. As do many many people. While many don't think much of it or even don't like it. As is the case with many subjective things in life.

By the way, he did The Social Netwok and that did very well with many many people liking it quite a bit. So nothing really anywhere implying there's something sinister behind it or that it will somehow surely be bad or horrible anything like that.

 

[diazj3]

I've seen most of his stuff and like it just fine. As do many many people. While many don't think much of it or even don't like it. As is the case with many subjective things in life.

By the way, he did The Social Netwok and that did very well with many many people liking it quite a bit. So nothing really anywhere implying there's something sinister behind it or that it will somehow surely be bad or horrible anything like that.

I did like The Social Network. But somehow, the fact that Zuckerberg is still alive (plus the controversies surrounding him, Facebook and its founding) makes it different. In the case of Steve Jobs, it seems this rush for making movies about him started after his death as a way to monetize him.

And worse - if Sorkin overdramatizes it for the sake of movie ratings, as he did with The Social Network, Steve Jobs image will be at least dented. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg what The Social Network did for him... :roll eyes:

In this case, according to Sorkin, there will be a heroin - Jobs' daughter - but is there a villain? who might it be? In any case, if Jobs' personal image will (surely) suffer, specially by some company exploiting the sad/complex and private/sensible drama of him being a douche by not recognizing his own daughter for a while... at least (I guess, if the family agreed to that) let the family get some money from it. But it's not like they need it though...

I wasn't thinking sinister... but rather cheap, or kind of greedy.

There's no denial that the media companies are always pushing the boundaries (of other people´s privacy) just to keep the masses entertained.

Personally, I find it distasteful.

But agreed... liking it or not, as is the case with many subjective things in life. A matter of taste.

Cheers!

 

[CFreymarc]

please make it stop....

Like to see Cheech and Chong do Jobs and Woz in a stoner comedy doing the Apple story.

 

[diazj3]

Like to see Cheech and Chong do Jobs and Woz in a stoner comedy doing the Apple story.

Me too!.. THAT would be amazing!

 

[poldidak]

I want to see Greg Kinnear play Sorkin in a 200-page-script-3-hour-long-made-for-prime-time movie about Sorkin writing a speech for Jobs to deliver to his daughter about being a better dad. Otherwise, not interested!

Oh, and Lisa Simpson should play the daughter.

 

[fmaxwell]

Why all of the hostility?

Intelligent people should be happy when Hollywood sees fit to make a big-budget movie about a giant in the tech sector.

Instead of another inane installment of the Fast and Furious or Transformers movies, Hollywood has green-lighted a biography of one of the most influential people in tech. That should make technophiles excited and pleased.

Yet this thread is filled with whining about a film that has not even begun shooting. To most of the people doing the whining, get over yourselves. You are just pseudonymous nobodies on the Internet. You aren't expert in directing films or writing scripts for them. You aren't respected film critics. Your have as much insight into Alan Sorkin's filmmaking skills as he as insight into the code used to implement the logical volume manager in the ZFS filesystem.

 

[Macist]

For a moment I thought, 'Uh oh, some feminist on the focus group has demanded more women...' but I'm quite positive about the Lisa role. I was struggling to see how the book would make a compelling film. Maybe this is the spark.

 

[CL4W]

seriously, who watches these? wikipedia has enough information about the guy. is Apple paying these directors to make these hopeless movies?

 

[blue22]

Gareth as Steve Jobs...

Although a bit of an unknown actor at this stage in his career, I think Andrew J. West looks similar enough to play Steve Jobs. Plus, he's got some good on-screen charisma too (albeit as a cannibal on The Walking Dead) and could deliver convincingly those intensely "unsavory" moments SJ was famous for in the early days of Apple. Check it out:

 

[C DM]

seriously, who watches these? wikipedia has enough information about the guy. is Apple paying these directors to make these hopeless movies?

Many people. There's enough information about all kinds of people and events in encyclopedias and other places and yet people watch movie after movie about them and often like them. Hardly a new or surprising concept.

 

[jmgregory1]

I have a hard time recognizing what a movie about Steve Jobs can offer that will make people want to see, that is either compelling in an of itself, or provides any kind of insight on him that to this point has been unknown.

Walter Isaacson has already provided much of this, and although Jobs' story is one of a brilliant guy doing things that many others (in the tech industry specifically and in life in general) haven't previously done, I just don't see the need for this type of movie.

Frankly, I'd prefer to watch a Ken Burns style show about Jobs, because I think Burns work showcasing people and things that have effected the greater human population would be closest to doing Jobs justice for what he's done for the population.

 

[G4DP]

So, they going to show Jobs stating that Lisa couldn't be his daughter, wanting nothing to do with her?

Going to be a great movie when according to one of the main characters doesn't even acknowledge the others existance.

 

[joekun]

A 181 page script and three 30 minute scenes don't make sense. The general rule is 1 page per minute. So either it's loaded up with a ridiculous amount of dialogue, or there is more going on than these 3 scenes. I'm assuming there will be a lot of flashbacks.

I don't have high hopes for this film. I'm not a Sorkin fan though, and Danny Boyle has problems making a good third act.

 

[Kwill]

Research

the film will focus on three 30-minute scenes showing Jobs backstage before the announcement of the Mac, NeXT, and the iPod.

My simple question is this: How many people are interested in these three scenes?

 

[C DM]

My simple question is this: How many people are interested in these three scenes?

How many people were interested or even knew about a Facebook deposition that The Social Network was centered around?

 

[NY Guitarist]

My simple question is this: How many people are interested in these three scenes?

I'll tell you after I see them.

 

[thebeans]

Yes

Is anyone actually interested in this?

Yes, you are. That is why you read the article and bothered to post here. I am as well.

 

[haravikk]

Seriously, why does this stuff keep getting front-page posts? When exactly did this become front-page news? What relevance does it have to Mac or iOS devices?

This boring casting speculation and non-announcements are side-stories at best, please stop spamming the front-page with them.

 

[mdriftmeyer]

Makes no sense

Lisa was never at NeXT, say maybe twice and once before leaving to Princeton, so making her the heroine is way out in left field. She most certainly wasn't around either for the Apple 2.0 days.

 

[lowendlinux]

I'd watch this just like I watched Jobs which I didn't think was terrible.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Lisa was never at NeXT, say maybe twice and once before leaving to Princeton, so making her the heroine is way out in left field. She most certainly wasn't around either for the Apple 2.0 days.

But then again he did name a computer after her...

 

[Gasu E.]

Is anyone actually interested in this?

Yes.

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My simple question is this: How many people are interested in these three scenes?

I'm amazed at how many dull comments there are on threads about the Sorkin movie. It's as if the topic forces people to turn off their imaginations. "Who cares about this?" I'm not interested in this!" "Pass." "Another Jobs movie?"

Yawn. If you actual believe that few people are interested in this movie: even fewer people are interested in the same drab comments over and over and over and over and over.

I'm interested in this movie, and so are a number of other people who have posted-- and that's enough to justify the continuing coverage. I'm sure there another thread elsewhere that might provide greater interest for the rest of you.

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I want to see Greg Kinnear play Sorkin in a 200-page-script-3-hour-long-made-for-prime-time movie about Sorkin writing a speech for Jobs to deliver to his daughter about being a better dad. Otherwise, not interested!

Oh, and Lisa Simpson should play the daughter.

Now, that was a comment worth making. lol.

 

[CFreymarc]

Lisa was never at NeXT, say maybe twice and once before leaving to Princeton, so making her the heroine is way out in left field. She most certainly wasn't around either for the Apple 2.0 days.

To quote several people I know who followed Steve from NeXT into Apple 2.0, Lisa was around a quite a bit and gave had her father and others feedback on several products as a private beta tester.

Was also told one of their favorite father / daughter times was skating together be it roller, in-line or ice.

 

[C DM]

Seriously, why does this stuff keep getting front-page posts? When exactly did this become front-page news? What relevance does it have to Mac or iOS devices?

This boring casting speculation and non-announcements are side-stories at best, please stop spamming the front-page with them.

Probably because it's Apple related, and this site is about Apple related news/rumors/etc. Isn't it great though thst it's just easy to read the things that interest us and skip over the ones that don't? It doesn't even take any effort.

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Yes.

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I'm amazed at how many dull comments there are on threads about the Sorkin movie. It's as if the topic forces people to turn off their imaginations. "Who cares about this?" I'm not interested in this!" "Pass." "Another Jobs movie?"

Yawn. If you actual believe that few people are interested in this movie: even fewer people are interested in the same drab comments over and over and over and over and over.

I'm interested in this movie, and so are a number of other people who have posted-- and that's enough to justify the continuing coverage. I'm sure there another thread elsewhere that might provide greater interest for the rest of you.

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Now, that was a comment worth making. lol.

I wonder if people go on random sports sites and then jump into some basketball threads and post how boring basketball is, how they don't care about it, etc., etc., etc. Completely rational and worthwile use of anyone's time clearly.