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George Clooney and Noah Wyle Vying to Play Steve Jobs on Film?
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Clooney -> Wozniak
With the right glasses, wig, and beard, George Clooney would be awesome as Steve Wozniak.
With the right glasses, wig, and beard, George Clooney would be awesome as Steve Wozniak.
re: Jobs and "God status"
I don't know.... I think it was more ridiculous to make the "Social Network" movie that was VERY loosely about Zuckerberg (a guy who by all actual accounts is a pretty boring, lame younger guy in the I.T. world, living in a typical, boring California home, who just got lucky that people flocked to Facebook as competing, paid sites like Classmates.com were dying off).
Sure, there are more important people than Steve Jobs! But usually, they, too, get their own biographies and books or movies made about them. As one of my good friends said, Jobs is the first businessman he ever really felt emotional over when he died. I'm not sure America has had anyone in corporate America like him since perhaps Henry Ford (another guy who certainly doesn't deserve some sort of "god-like" status, but was very interesting and influenced an entire industry). And even Ford never had the chance to hold the title of C.E.O. of two companies simultaneously!
I don't know.... I think it was more ridiculous to make the "Social Network" movie that was VERY loosely about Zuckerberg (a guy who by all actual accounts is a pretty boring, lame younger guy in the I.T. world, living in a typical, boring California home, who just got lucky that people flocked to Facebook as competing, paid sites like Classmates.com were dying off).
Sure, there are more important people than Steve Jobs! But usually, they, too, get their own biographies and books or movies made about them. As one of my good friends said, Jobs is the first businessman he ever really felt emotional over when he died. I'm not sure America has had anyone in corporate America like him since perhaps Henry Ford (another guy who certainly doesn't deserve some sort of "god-like" status, but was very interesting and influenced an entire industry). And even Ford never had the chance to hold the title of C.E.O. of two companies simultaneously!
Just forget it if the same guy writes the script who did the Fincher film.
He should go back to Princeton.
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Wyle better play him! He did an amazing job in pirates and the man is like Steve's long lost identicle twin brother. They shouldn't even consider anybody else.
Wyle better play him! He did an amazing job in pirates and the man is like Steve's long lost identicle twin brother. They shouldn't even consider anybody else.
Russian actor Peter Mamonov should play Jobs in the last years of Jobs life.
He really looks like Steve Jobs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlxAE4oU7lk&feature=related
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Tom Welling!!!
Oh wait ... which message board am I on?
Wyle did a great job in POSV. I think with better direction (that "film" was overacted left, right and center), and with a script penned by Sorkin, he'd nail that part.
I'm also in favor of an unknown.
Problem with Clooney is he's pretty grey and the beef of Jobs' story takes place in the '70s/'80s (with exception to the revitalization of Apple in the Aughts). You have to cast an actor that has enough range to physically play a 20-year-old and convincingly play a 50-year-old.
But let's not make the Leo J. Edgar mistake. That makeup is horrendous.
Oh wait ... which message board am I on?
Wyle did a great job in POSV. I think with better direction (that "film" was overacted left, right and center), and with a script penned by Sorkin, he'd nail that part.
I'm also in favor of an unknown.
Problem with Clooney is he's pretty grey and the beef of Jobs' story takes place in the '70s/'80s (with exception to the revitalization of Apple in the Aughts). You have to cast an actor that has enough range to physically play a 20-year-old and convincingly play a 50-year-old.
But let's not make the Leo J. Edgar mistake. That makeup is horrendous.
In that case then they should stop production on The Al Davis movie.
Al Davis change the face a American Football in so many ways, some people think he deserves what you call God Status.
Matt Damon as Jony Ive(he already shaved his head for Elysium)
Bratt Pitt as Scott Forstall
Jonah Hill as Phil Schiller?
Andy Garcia as Gil Amelio
Could Soderberg direct as well? I know Hill wasn't in any of the Ocean's movies and the book didn't really have much of these guys
Bratt Pitt as Scott Forstall
Jonah Hill as Phil Schiller?
Andy Garcia as Gil Amelio
Could Soderberg direct as well? I know Hill wasn't in any of the Ocean's movies and the book didn't really have much of these guys
Ever see Benjamin Button? Captain America? There's this thing called special effects. Handled properly, you can do amazing things with it. Besides, I'm sure that would be a small part of the film.
Is that really so hard to do? They could do a "Skinny Steve" treatment just like they accomplished in Captain America. Do it digitally.
In all seriousness, if they really wanted to do it, they could easily do it with technology similar to benjamin button or captain america. It would make for a very expensive documentary however.