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Sony Pictures Acquiring Rights to a Movie About Steve Jobs

wrinkster22 said:
Look on the internet... Mark zuckerburg used an iBook but because sony made the movie the actors used sony vaio laptops. I was joking around thinking that perhaps they will show Jobs using a pc!
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I feel like disney should also make the movie as he was a major share holder.
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would they need permission or is he a public domain?
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I distinctly remember Eduardo breaking Zuckerbergs Macbook Pro in the film.
 
euphlyusUNO said:
The best person in my head is James Cameron, to me he's sort of the Steve Jobs of Hollywood.
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James Cameron is like Michael Bay, same douchy behaviour just on a higher budget. No story and lots of effects.

On a side note, i already feel bad for whoever gets cast as jobs. No one can live up to him, obvs. Let alone so soon after his death. Maybe in 10 years ... If apple is still around that is
 
euphlyusUNO said:
The best person in my head is James Cameron, to me he's sort of the Steve Jobs of Hollywood.
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Yeah if you want everyone to look blue and it to be in 120fps 3D.

It depends on how they take the story.
If they go for a realistic factual story then thats one style director.
If they go documentary thats another one.

Personally i hope they adapt it and show the real and dark side to the book, directed by someone like Fincher (the man is brilliant at adapting the vision of books, e.g. fight club, dragon tattoo, social network etc) and scored by Reznor/Ross.

THAT would be stunning.
 
futbalguy said:
Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt or Shia Labeouf
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or this guy :)
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But seriously Noah Wyle again is the best option.
 
Maybe Sony could have waited until the day (year?) after the funeral before chasing down that funeral’s latent profits.
 
-AG- said:
Yeah if you want everyone to look blue and it to be in 120fps 3D.

It depends on how they take the story.
If they go for a realistic factual story then thats one style director.
If they go documentary thats another one.

Personally i hope they adapt it and show the real and dark side to the book, directed by someone like Fincher (the man is brilliant at adapting the vision of books, e.g. fight club, dragon tattoo, social network etc) and scored by Reznor/Ross.

THAT would be stunning.
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Reznor/Ross? No way. But I like the idea of Fincher directing the film. Social Network was a terrific picture.

Cameron would never ever do a film about Jobs anyway. He's too big a name for a movie like this and you don't need Cameron to get something like this done right. People like Cameron should be doing what they are already doing, carrying the sector forward. A conventional film is not something people of his caliber should spend their time on.
 
wrinkster22 said:
Strange considering the fact that they competed in the market. Probably there will be shotes of apple employees useinging the vaio series computer like in the social network :roll eyes: :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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And NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock that product place iPhones all over the episode is any better?

I would hate Disney to do it even if Jobs was shareholder for them. It will get "Disney-fied" into this campy movie. I am a big horse racing fan, and disliked their adaptation of Secretariat. Of course, not much a underdog story in it, but I expected alot of that Disney "cheesiness" moments that were also very inaccurate.

They isn't much rivalry when you consider Apple went to Sony for their camera modules although I think Apple will still use OmniVision for the 4S. I remember reading this article about the Walkman and the first time Steve had ever seen one over 30 years ago, he was so fascinated by it. There was a time when Sony was like Apple before Apple. And Jobs' outlook with life and technology is very much like Asian-influenced. The Japanese are known to be very detailed and efficient too.

That Facebook movie, The Social Network, was one of the best movies from last year and won three Oscars.

http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time...the-businessman-can-apple-thrive-without-him/
The future facing Apple makes me think of another electronics giant, Japan's Sony. Sony was Apple before Apple, the great global innovator that produced products that changed people's lives, again and again. Sony, remember, championed the idea of personalized electronics – not the giant radio in the living room, but the miniature transistor radio, or the portable TV set. Sony invented the Walkman, altering forever how people listened to music, in the same way the iPod has in more recent times. Sony, like Apple, was a company that thrived on new ideas, new technologies, and an engaging brand.

And just like Apple, Sony was propelled forward by personality – well, two personalities, in fact – co-founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka. The two of them were behind everything Sony did, much like Jobs at Apple. They were unique visionaries, with a unique talent of bringing technology to the masses. And in the process, much like Jobs, they built an international company with an unrivaled brand.

Sony is still one of the industry's titans today, long after Morita and Ibuka have left the scene. The Japanese firm continues to make high-quality consumer electronics under one of the most trusted brands in the world. But no one would say Sony is the influential innovator it used to be. Apple took its place as the game changer of the electronics world. Up-and-coming companies like Samsung have eaten away at its global presence in key businesses, like televisions. Sure, the company has been managed by some talented people, but Morita and Ibuka were just too hard to replace. Sony has never been quite the same without them.

Will Apple suffer the same fate? It is impossible to tell. Yet Sony offers a cautionary tale. I was in Tokyo conducting some research on Sony a few years ago and had the pleasure of interviewing Yotaro Kobayashi, a long-time friend of Akio Morita. He believed that Sony struggled because its modern-day managers kept trying to recapture the old Morita-Ibuka spirit to guide the company to its future. But, Kobayashi believed, that was not possible. There was only one Morita and one Ibuka.

Just like there is only one Steve Jobs.
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Tasteless of Sony :mad::mad: Steve's body is not long cold and they are already hovering like vultures trying to cash in on him
 
The only good way to do is to have Disney get the rights and have Pixar do an animated film of his life.
 
Savor said:
I would hate Disney to do it even if Jobs was shareholder for them. It will get "Disney-fied" into this campy movie. I am a big horse racing fan, and disliked their adaptation of Secretariat. Of course, not much a underdog story in it, but I expected alot of that Disney "cheesiness" moments that were also very inaccurate.
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Disney owns

Hollywood Pictures
ImageMovers Digital
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios

And you can't say that they "disneyfied" all films put out by all those studios :)
 
Wow. This is really nice. I have set steve jobs wallpaper that shows a picture of him and it says steve jobs 1955-2011. But if this movie is real I will sure to pay tickets to watch it.
 
Too soon, he just passed away. Purchasing now the rights seems borderline immoral.

If someone should the movie it's Disney. Keep it in the family.
 
I think it's tasteless to announce this so close to Steve's death. Not cool at all.

But since we're on the subject, Ashton Kutcher looks like a young Steve.
He would probably be considered for the part.

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Viggo Mortensen. He is a better actor and has more charisma than Wyle.

Too soon? By the time e movie gets made, it won't be.
 
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