Sony Pictures Acquiring Rights to a Movie About Steve Jobs

[AidenShaw]

These days you don't buy an Apple product. You buy a slice into the Apple ecosystem and way of life. Well that's what I'd like to believe. You're buying a whole new way of life.

... or you don't buy any Apple products.

My consumer electronics manufacturers don't define my "way of life", and never will.

If you think that your electronic toy maker gives you a "whole new way of life", you probably don't have much of a life. Walk out of the basement - and look at the real world.

Apple-free, except for some old Ipod thingy that work bought for me - which always has a dead battery if I try to wake it up. Useless.

 

[Dobiewonkanobie]

Never a tragedy too poignant to exploit...

Jobs death a tragedy? Hardly. Sad? yes. People live and die everyday and the world goes on. Not trivializing his death I just don't think its tragic.

I hope its more documentary and nothing overly dramatic. Once I read the book I'll have a better opinion.

 

[Dobiewonkanobie]

Edit: mistake post

 

[Thex1138]

I would see a movie somewhat like this though...


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[appleguy123]

Jobs death a tragedy? Hardly. Sad? yes. People live and die everyday and the world goes on. Not trivializing his death I just don't think its tragic.

I hope its more documentary and nothing overly dramatic. Once I read the book I'll have a better opinion.

I think that it was a tragedy. How many people have created the most valuable company in the world, started a cult around their products, created something that people use everyday(3 times over), and have a sense of taste like Steve Jobs?

There's no telling what products we could have had if Steve were still around for 30 more years. What other markets could he have created? How much easier and more enjoyable could our lives have been?

Seems pretty tragic to me.

 

[D.T.]

actors:

Christian Bale would be my first choice (see him in "The Machinist" or "The Fighter"), then Stanley Tucci (great character actor), Noah Wylie, Ashton Kutcher (can't act).

Director,

David Fincher ("The Social Network"), Darren Aronofsky ("Black Swan"), Steven Frears ("The Queen"), Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech") or maybe Ed Harris ("Pollack"),

but if I was going to pick, it would be Mike Mills ("Beginners"). He grew up in Berkeley, trained as a graphic artist, is married to a performance artist/actor/director and Berkeley girl Miranda July. I think he gets Steve.

Outstanding choices all around (lead role and director). I'd also probably add Paul Thomas Anderson, and Steven Soderbergh, and for actors someone who disappears in a role, is method like Daniel Day Lewis.

Side note: Did someone compare Cameron to Bay!!?? Yikes.

 

[Deflorator]

Pixar

I would prefer Pixar, dudes...

 

[Cloudsurfer]

If Sony does this, we'll see Vaio's instead of Macs

 

[CQd44]

I think that it was a tragedy. How many people have created the most valuable company in the world, started a cult around their products, created something that people use everyday(3 times over), and have a sense of taste like Steve Jobs?

There's no telling what products we could have had if Steve were still around for 30 more years. What other markets could he have created? How much easier and more enjoyable could our lives have been?

Seems pretty tragic to me.

He created luxury items. You know, things people don't need. I don't use any Apple products.

Also, was it ever discovered whether or not he donated to charity? I mean, if he didn't, he surely didn't help those in need.
(and no, needing a new iToy isn't a real need)

I *really* hope it's found that he really did donate to help people. It would be *great* if he donated to cancer research since, you know, that's what got the best of him.

So to me it isn't a tragedy.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-user-acting-like-his-dad-just-died,26270/ related. Funny and related since I know people who are reacting in this manner.

 

[millar876]

+1 for Noah. Was watching him in falling skies and thinking, he'd still be a great steve, if they ever did a followup to pirates.

Noah Wyle again, of course!

SJ actually hated the script and the production values of Pirates Of Silicon Valley, but did like Noah's performance in it and did think he looks like him.


http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/noah-wyle-steve-jobs/?section=magazines_fortune

 

[s1m]

He created luxury items. You know, things people don't need. I don't use any Apple products.

Then why are you wasting your time posting on an apple rumors site? Don't you have better things to do with your life?

 

[Ori]

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Even if they sign the rights now, it will be 3 years until it is up on the big screen.
Well, unless it's done as a low budget Indy film.

 

[Narrisch]

This is too early, this isent right! Jobs is dead just for a few days and the whole world wants to make money with it. It seems it isent possible to wait some days after his funeral to talk about such kind of news?

 

[kaffra]

you opinion means nothing then since you havent tried any of their products.

He created luxury items. You know, things people don't need. I don't use any Apple products.

Also, was it ever discovered whether or not he donated to charity? I mean, if he didn't, he surely didn't help those in need.
(and no, needing a new iToy isn't a real need)

I *really* hope it's found that he really did donate to help people. It would be *great* if he donated to cancer research since, you know, that's what got the best of him.

So to me it isn't a tragedy.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-user-acting-like-his-dad-just-died,26270/ related. Funny and related since I know people who are reacting in this manner.

 

[Jerome Morrow]

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[/url]Deadline reports that Sony Pictures is presently working to acquire the rights for feature film based on Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs.Deadline considers the studio to be a good match, having recently condensed another business book into the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network which dramatized the founding of Facebook.

Apple and Steve Jobs has already been the topic of one movie called Pirates of Silicon Valley which covered events of the early founding of Apple and up to the return of Steve Jobs at Apple in the late 90s. The movie was a relatively modest telling and targeted straight to television rather than a feature film. The movie was also released in 1999, well before Apple's massive rise in popularity and profitability.

There's no word on when such a film might be targeted for release.

Article Link: Sony Pictures Acquiring Rights to Movie About Steve Jobs

Documentary - i'd love that. Something else would be an insult.

 

[CWT1965]

Interesting theory, but not likely. Having lost both parents to cancer, their last days would not have been spent on sales strategy discussions - those days were spent on pain management and other hospice issues.

What I actually wonder is if Jobs had already passed when the keynote was being presented, and the announcement of his passing was delayed until the next day.

Nothing illegal or unethical about that, but it could explain some of the lack of enthusiam during the keynote. (Of course, there would be a lack of enthusiam if the presenters knew that Jobs was in the final stages - the lack doesn't in any way imply that he might already have been gone.)

Simply the knowledge that Jobs was at the "hospice" stage would mean that everyone knew that death was imminent, and the care was simply to make the last days as painless and humane as possible. (You don't worry about creating a morphine addiction - you dispense as much as is needed to alleviate the pain.)

The more I think about it the more I think he died suddenly or at the very least they weren't expecting him to die so quick, I mean they had that chair reserved for Steve so presumably right until the last moment they were expecting Steve to attend which makes me think maybe the day or night of the keynote he had a heart attack or something which suddenly worsened him into a life threatening situation.

 

[striker33]

I'll torrent it. Sony will not be receiving any money from me for this clear exploitation.

 

[AidenShaw]

The more I think about it the more I think he died suddenly or at the very least they weren't expecting him to die so quick, I mean they had that chair reserved for Steve so presumably right until the last moment they were expecting Steve to attend which makes me think maybe the day or night of the keynote he had a heart attack or something which suddenly worsened him into a life threatening situation.

The chair was just a symbol, to honor Steve and to emphasize to the audience that Steve wouldn't make an appearance onstage.

Reread the quote from Isaacson:

A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain...

Nobody was expecting Steve to appear.

 

[fithian]

The Chair

The chair was just a symbol, to honor Steve and to emphasize to the audience that Steve wouldn't make an appearance onstage.

Nobody was expecting Steve to appear.

Nice shot to end the movie.

 

[CWT1965]

The chair was just a symbol, to honor Steve and to emphasize to the audience that Steve wouldn't make an appearance onstage.

Reread the quote from Isaacson:



Nobody was expecting Steve to appear.

Yeah fair point, I stand corrected, in all the emotion of the last couple of days that bit from Isaacson slipped right by me, given those circumstances no chance he would have attended.

 

[Collected]

Rather than a 'social network' style movie I'd rather they just put a documentary into cinemas with archive footage and interviews with everyone from bill gates to obama talking about steve and apple. I'd much rather go watch that.

 

[blackpond]

I wonder who will be casted to play steve

Justin Long of course....

Sony probably wants to buy the rights so it can shelve the project.

 

[nylonsteel]

re original article

a 2hr movie will not do justice to the life of mr jobs

better read the book - on an ipad

 

[nicky89]

I would prefer Pixar, dudes...

Exactly what I would prefer.

 

[Mackid2ghz]

Ray McKinnon

I don't know if anyone has said this, but Ray McKinnon would make a great Steve Jobs...plus he even drives Steve's BMW bike in sons of anarchy