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Sony Drops Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie, Universal May Take Over [Updated]
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Guess someone finally realized this will flop. Sure he had a good vision of what people want to buy. There are already two lousy movies I know of we don't need another. It'll just be full of overly dramatic scenes of questionably accurate dialogue that best belong in a Lifetime movie anyway.
Although I might be tempted to watch it. If they made it a dark comedy with Samuel L. Jackson playing Jobs and Steve Buscemi Wozniak. With a tone somewhere between Pulp Fiction and Fargo.
Yea that would suck too. But not as bad as another movie about a tech company founder. Excepting of course, "Edison, the Man" with Spencer Tracy.
Although I might be tempted to watch it. If they made it a dark comedy with Samuel L. Jackson playing Jobs and Steve Buscemi Wozniak. With a tone somewhere between Pulp Fiction and Fargo.
Yea that would suck too. But not as bad as another movie about a tech company founder. Excepting of course, "Edison, the Man" with Spencer Tracy.
Are you joking? Did you read his premise? He was all over caught up in himself but had no idea how to actually tell the Jobs story.
I love Aaron Sorkin but it seems like this movie isn't meant to be, so far everything points to this ending up average at best, if actors and even studios are not having much faith in it...
Not joking. Yes, I've read the premise. He knows how to tell the story. If it were just a plain old biopic, then it would be boring. Sorkin knows what he's doing.
it's just too late. the general public has moved on. this is something that needed to be prepared before his death, not years later. it's looking like a straight to Netflix release
By the time it's released, no one will care. OS 10.18 and iOS 254 will have ruined Steve Job's reputation by then.
Well they won't GIVE it back... probably find a way to sell the rights back to Disney though.
A Lincoln movie came out over hundred years after he passed away and it was still a good movie and plenty of people enjoyed it. Same goes for all kinds of influential figures. There really isn't something like too late (and often even not much as far as too early) when it comes to things of this nature.
I work for Fox Sports 1 now... They laid me off along with 450 other people in 2010.
There was just another round earlier this year... yet somehow they built this giant ugly ass rainbow that cost them 1.2 million dollars in the middle of the studio...
Absolute genius idea! And relevant since he helped Pixar become what they are today.
But seriously, Aaron Sorkin's probably taken so long to get all of this planned that Sony is fed up with him and said they won't fund it anymore since it'll be even more outdated by the time it's released.
But I guess that is true, no matter if Universal or others fund it.
Didn't Sony Studios lay off another few hundred workers in Culver City recently?
I bet this is because Sony Studios is having major money problems.
I bet this is because Sony Studios is having major money problems.
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Thus far the only thing I find even remotely intriguing about this movie, is how exactly were they going to pull off making it interesting to a mainstream audience.
Just read the biography which his own family never once disputed. He was jerk, cold blooded one at that. But he made some amazing personal products and now he's worshipped as a god
I work for Fox Sports 1 now... They laid me off along with 450 other people in 2010.
There was just another round earlier this year... yet somehow they built this giant ugly ass rainbow that cost them 1.2 million dollars in the middle of the studio...
Private messaged you to avoid endless tangents.
