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I'd be VERY surprised if he spanned this film over decades. I suspect he's looking for a singular product/fight/challenge in Steve's career that is a representation of Steve's life at large. As great as all the iProducts are, I bet he'll avoid them because there's no drama in products selling millions and millions and kicking everyone's butts.
I think he'll cover key points in Steve Jobs' life, and the transformation from long hair hippies style founder to bearded mogul.
• founding Apple
• early success
• kicked out of his own company
• Dreamworks
• resuscitation of Apple
• while iGadgets are not interesting for the Apple computer fan, they'll feature for the "business/design for the masses" part.
• the iMac is the key idea, it opened Apple to the masses.
• The iPhonePadPod is just a very similar principle, so I think it'll show more Jobs, the business man than the inventive person (Sure, nobody thought the iPod will would sell - but it was just the digital version of the Walkman, a Sony invention. The iPadPodPhone will figure to show the change of our world from analog to digital.
and about his personality
* his leadership
* how he creates his ideas
* I hope the script will leave out his sickness.
generally
# I think it'll be about that all good work is done by individuals, not by committees or teams. An individualist movie, against the current crop of beliefs of "sharing" and "team" etc. (five Tim Cooks cooking a meal, as it's now).
I don't expect his family to be in there a lot.