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Michael Fassbender in Talks to Play Steve Jobs in Upcoming Sony Biopic
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Makes sense. Given how Magneto could control and bend mental with his mind, that's about as close as you can get to having a reality distortion field.
Why not Liam Hemsworth?
At the rate they're going, he'll be old enough by the time the movie is made.
At the rate they're going, he'll be old enough by the time the movie is made.
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts...
2nd for Fassbender. He is a talented actor. His performances in Prometheus and X-Men First Class were terrific, taking interesting material and making it better. And I haven't even seen his more critically acclaimed film performances yet. Not exactly sure about the look for Steve Jobs though.
Looks in these biopics aren't the be all / end all however. Anthony Hopkins was perfectly enjoyable as Hitchcock, another easily recognized genius. Close enough to capture the spirit.
EDIT: Oh yeah, 12 Years A Slave. How could I forget that? Amazing.
2nd for Fassbender. He is a talented actor. His performances in Prometheus and X-Men First Class were terrific, taking interesting material and making it better. And I haven't even seen his more critically acclaimed film performances yet. Not exactly sure about the look for Steve Jobs though.
Looks in these biopics aren't the be all / end all however. Anthony Hopkins was perfectly enjoyable as Hitchcock, another easily recognized genius. Close enough to capture the spirit.
EDIT: Oh yeah, 12 Years A Slave. How could I forget that? Amazing.
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OMG ! OMG ! OMG ! Fassbender is my favorite actor of this decade. He is an acting genius. Yeah he doesn't look at all like Jobs ( but neither does DiCaprio ), but he is a finer actor than both DiCaprio and Bale.
If you haven't seen "Shame", please do and you'll understand. Stunning performance.
If you haven't seen "Shame", please do and you'll understand. Stunning performance.
I really don't care either way but I am curious as to why two leading men have opted out of this movie.
Fassbender's best performances are in HUNGER and SHAME, both directed by Steve McQueen. Also notable are his performances in 12 YEARS A SLAVE (McQueen as well) and FRANK (dir. Lenny Abrahamson).
For all of Kutcher's ability to mimic Jobs' mannerisms, JOBS was an utterly terrible movie.... If the Sorkinisms can be kept to a minimum, and the sexism inherent in much of his writing toned down, you may end up with a good story and then what you need is an excellent actor to drive it home. Fassbender's body of work is as impressive or more than Bale's so he's certainly capable.
Looks are completely secondary... It takes only a few hours to change someone's appearance with makeup and wardrobe. You can't teach a career's worth of that calibre of acting in an entire year.
The Kutcher movie was almost completely generic.
I fell asleep halfway through while watching it on Netflix.
Didn't bother to watch the 2nd half after I woke up.
Not really. This running joke hasn't lasted nowhere near as long as the Safari one. And what if the commenter is actually serious?
Aside from the horrifically bad score, it was as if the writer(s) had gone through wikipedia entries on Jobs and Apple, and then gotten half the dates, places and relevant characters wrong anyway.
I don't think this movie will ever be done. There's something fishy about it that a few great actors already passed.
He may not have the physical resemblance to Jobs that Bale could have had, but he is a significantly better actor. So that would make me quite interested in the movie.