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Natalie Portman Passes on Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie

When I heard Natalie might be starring in the movie, I thought wow, maybe this movie really does have a chance of being something meaningful since Natalie is very selective in her films. Though her backing out shows that the film won't be anything more than another Job's film.

The latest one was a joke, which everyone knew as soon as the star was picked. There may be more to Jobs that we haven't seen but I don't think anyone needs to see it right now. They should wait a decade.
 
Pretty much ....

I lost 99% of any interest I had in this when they decided it would focus on 3 big product launches from Apple.

If there's any aspect of Apple that we all know and could recite in our sleep, it's the history of its biggest achievements.

Heck, even people who live under rocks could probably tell you Apple hit it big with the original Macintosh back in 1984 (Superbowl commercial and all that), and again with the iPod music player. Why pay high ticket prices to see a movie that recites the obvious?

About the *only* story I think is really left to tell about Jobs is the one people seem to shy away from telling .... an in-depth story of how he interacted with his family and relatives throughout his career, and more insight into WHY he made the decisions he made in his interactions with other people. (I think there are plenty of pieces of evidence to make some assumptions about this stuff, but the general public never followed Jobs-related news items closely enough to know all the tales of how, say, he acted rudely to a blogger at a MacWorld expo, or his rationale for parking his car in handicapped spaces, or how he went from not acknowledging his own child to acceptance.)



mrkramer said:
Still think the idea of how they are doing it is completely stupid.
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C DM said:
Well, same things were probably said about the Facebook movie when it was being developed, yet The Social Network turned out quite well and appealed to all kinds of people.
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I guess the story behind a college dropout becoming the youngest billionaire is a lot more appealing than an arrogant corporate tyrant. That, and Facebook is/was much, much more ubiquitous than Apple products.
 
This seems to be falling apart every step of the way. I doubt it'll ever get off the ground
 
kingtj said:
About the *only* story I think is really left to tell about Jobs is the one people seem to shy away from telling .... an in-depth story of how he interacted with his family and relatives throughout his career, and more insight into WHY he made the decisions he made in his interactions with other people.
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Do you want people to admire him or hate him? Besides, I think the general public has moved on from Jobs either way.
 
kas23 said:
I guess the story behind a college dropout becoming the youngest billionaire is a lot more appealing than an arrogant corporate tyrant. That, and Facebook is/was much, much more ubiquitous than Apple products.
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Jobs' beginnings weren't from some rich or tyrannical background. Not so sure about Facebook being more ubiquitous than Apple either.
 
Aaron Sorkin is awesome, but this is just a bad idea. Why re-cover largely the same territory that has already been covered by other movies (e.g. The Pirates of Silicon Valley)? I'm just burned out on re-makes of the same darn thing.

Why not produce a movie covering his entire professional career? Seeing a theatrical representation of the more recent bits from Isaacson's book would be worthwhile.
 
I think a movie made about the drama of this Sorkin movie would be more entertaining
 
IbisDoc said:
Passing on this totally uninteresting concept shows that she is smarter than I thought.
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I know it isn't what you meant by smart, but Natalie is a Harvard grad, lectured at Columbia and speaks half a dozen languages fluently. That's what makes her extremely attractive.
 
RangerOne said:
Aaron Sorkin is awesome, but this is just a bad idea. Why re-cover largely the same territory that has already been covered by other movies (e.g. The Pirates of Silicon Valley)? I'm just burned out on re-makes of the same darn thing.

Why not produce a movie covering his entire professional career? Seeing a theatrical representation of the more recent bits from Isaacson's book would be worthwhile.
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Doesn't seem like it would be the same story, considering the other couple of movies were more about covering the career in general.
 
MacRumors said:
Variety is reporting that the actress has decided to pass on the movie, though it's unclear why
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It's "unclear why"? It's obviously because the movie sucks incredibly much - I guess even more than the iPad Mini 3 "upgrade" - and people are running from it like people ran from the Maps app.
 
kingtj said:
I lost 99% of any interest I had in this when they decided it would focus on 3 big product launches from Apple.

If there's any aspect of Apple that we all know and could recite in our sleep, it's the history of its biggest achievements.

Heck, even people who live under rocks could probably tell you Apple hit it big with the original Macintosh back in 1984 (Superbowl commercial and all that), and again with the iPod music player. Why pay high ticket prices to see a movie that recites the obvious?

About the *only* story I think is really left to tell about Jobs is the one people seem to shy away from telling .... an in-depth story of how he interacted with his family and relatives throughout his career, and more insight into WHY he made the decisions he made in his interactions with other people. (I think there are plenty of pieces of evidence to make some assumptions about this stuff, but the general public never followed Jobs-related news items closely enough to know all the tales of how, say, he acted rudely to a blogger at a MacWorld expo, or his rationale for parking his car in handicapped spaces, or how he went from not acknowledging his own child to acceptance.)
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Yeah... I don't understand the concept of highlighting 3 product launches either.

I heard that they were focusing on the 30 minutes prior to each product launch... in real-time. Sorkin has always done pretty cool things with dialog, timing, movement, etc. So it might be neat to see the action unfold backstage.

But in the end... it's still three 30 minute segments about a guy who had a 30 year career.

I'd actually love to have seen the craziness that was taking place backstage before the iPhone launch... but I don't think it merits a Hollywood movie.

I think the movie studios and actors are realizing that too...
 
Teste said:
It's "unclear why"? It's obviously because the movie sucks incredibly much - I guess even more than the iPad Mini 3 "upgrade" - and people are running from it like people ran from the Maps app.
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"Obviously"? Because it can't be because of tons of other more typical and not so unusual reasons, like not being able to agree on the money, scheduling conflicts, etc.? The only obvious thing is that it's unclear so far.

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Michael Scrip said:
Yeah... I don't understand the concept of highlighting 3 product launches either.

I heard that they were focusing on the 30 minutes prior to each product launch... in real-time. Sorkin has always done pretty cool things with dialog, timing, movement, etc. So it might be neat to see the action unfold.

But in the end... it's still three 30 minute segments in the life of a guy who had a 30 year career.
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Assuming they do just those in real-time, it might be kind of odd and tricky, although it'd be interesting to see what that would look like. If not so much in real time, but just concentrating on those launches as the center of it all, it could go in all kinds of different places--after all, The Social Network was mainly centered around a deposition.
 
C DM said:
Assuming they do just those in real-time, it might be kind of odd and tricky, although it'd be interesting to see what that would look like. If not so much in real time, but just concentrating on those launches as the center of it all, it could go in all kinds of different places--after all, The Social Network was mainly centered around a deposition.
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Oh yeah... they'd need to go to a couple different places for sure.

I can envision being backstage before the iPhone launch... and then cutting away to a scene in 2004 with Jony Ive in the lab. Jony with his head in his hands saying "how are we gonna pull this off?"

Then cut back to 2007 with Steve Jobs proudly saying:

"This is a day that I have been looking forward to for two and half years..."

:D
 
I think this Steve Jobs hotness is wearing out. Apple has moved on and it seems everyone else is as well. Let him rest in peace and lets move forward.
 
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