how would steve jobs play as steve jobs though? using old recorded footage mixed with some interviews of current people?
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Sony Pictures Acquiring Rights to a Movie About Steve Jobs
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how would steve jobs play as steve jobs though? using old recorded footage mixed with some interviews of current people?
There's a brilliant Martin Scorsese film/documentary that aired recently about George Harrison, called Living in the Material World that is practically exactly what you described - archive footage of the man himself, interspersed with new interviews from those that knew him. If done right it can be really effective.
Yep
Footage of old interviews, presentations, interviews with people that worked with him and so on
This. I'd boycott that movie if that happened.
In my opinion they should cast Noah Wyle again, he plays a good Steve.
Ill put my hat in the ring and propose that John Malkovich be cast for the role. He doesn't look like a younger Jobs but he sure can act and has the intensity to do the . . . job
I knew this would happen as soon as he died and the biography was moved forward. I don't see it as a bad thing at all - Steve is a great man who did great things, and great men who who do great things will have films made about their stories. I don't see this as disrespectful to Steve at all and I am looking forward to seeing it.
Another important thing to note is that, while it may seem like Sony Pictures are rushing in to exploit a tragedy due to the timing, the actual film will be out in at least a years' time, most likely two, at which point we'll want to look over and celebrate his history rather than mourn.
Another important thing to note is that, while it may seem like Sony Pictures are rushing in to exploit a tragedy due to the timing, the actual film will be out in at least a years' time, most likely two, at which point we'll want to look over and celebrate his history rather than mourn.
I really hope we don't see a SJ biography movie for several years, at least.
As someone who has studied a lot of history, books written about an event immediately afterwards never seem to get the story right. They may have "facts" fresh in people's minds, but they also get too emotionally involved. Its all but impossible for the author, or the reader, to separate their own emotional involvement from the story.
A "Steve Jobs" movie now would lack any perspective. We know how Steve's life ended - but we don't know what happens to Apple. Does Apple continue to thrive and grow, a testament to the team and company that Steve built? Or does it slide into mediocrity and irrelevance, proof that was all a fad? How do the products Apple has made over the last few years impact the world? Are tablets a passing fancy, or do they become the dominant computing platform? Do Siri and iCloud represent huge steps forward to the "postPC" world - or are they technological gimmicks? Does Android (or Windows Phone, or..) eventually destroy the iPhone? Does Microsoft eventually triumph in the Tablet space?
You could do a good documentary on Steve in the next year or so. Archival footage, combined with photographs and interviews with people he knew and worked with. But a Hollywood-style biopic would be an abomination. We know what Steve looks like, what he sounds like. And any actor playing him (or any of the well-known figures he interacts with) is going to be laboring under an impossible burden of comparison.
As someone who has studied a lot of history, books written about an event immediately afterwards never seem to get the story right. They may have "facts" fresh in people's minds, but they also get too emotionally involved. Its all but impossible for the author, or the reader, to separate their own emotional involvement from the story.
A "Steve Jobs" movie now would lack any perspective. We know how Steve's life ended - but we don't know what happens to Apple. Does Apple continue to thrive and grow, a testament to the team and company that Steve built? Or does it slide into mediocrity and irrelevance, proof that was all a fad? How do the products Apple has made over the last few years impact the world? Are tablets a passing fancy, or do they become the dominant computing platform? Do Siri and iCloud represent huge steps forward to the "postPC" world - or are they technological gimmicks? Does Android (or Windows Phone, or..) eventually destroy the iPhone? Does Microsoft eventually triumph in the Tablet space?
You could do a good documentary on Steve in the next year or so. Archival footage, combined with photographs and interviews with people he knew and worked with. But a Hollywood-style biopic would be an abomination. We know what Steve looks like, what he sounds like. And any actor playing him (or any of the well-known figures he interacts with) is going to be laboring under an impossible burden of comparison.
Agreed to a point. That point being - if the movie was about APPLE. But that's not what the movie would be about. It would be about Steve - who was born, lived and died. And even though there are legacies he has left behind that will thrive or falter - a biopic has everything it needs to tell the story of STEVE JOBS.
Young Steve resembles Ashton Kutcher: http://cheezburger.com/View/1345309440
70's show hippie influence doesn't hurt either!
70's show hippie influence doesn't hurt either!
LOL! They could exercise some 'artistic license' in the Gates/Jobs interaction, with Statham doing what he does best, kick a$$.
The real problem with most posts is that they are as obvious as Microsoft and simply copy whatever we have seen before.
sorkin and fincher just because they did the social network? noah wyle because we all have seen it before? Really, is this how far we learned to look?
what we should have learned from Apple is you go for the experience, not the most obvious solution.
Noah wiley worked in the first movie because he was a surprise, Kutcher is a bore and maybe he will surprise us by being twice as interesting as he is now, but that would only get him to 10% of the complexity of steve jobs.
What would be a cool choice? Someone like Mark Strong or Cliff Curtis, they can do the whole range, from manic Jobs to cool charming Jobs.
Let's not forget that Jobs is not a all american boy, his father is Syrian. Genetics play a role, you will have different sensibilities even when you grow up without the cultural influence of your father. this is one of the many many thing that makes Jobs so different.
We can only hope sony will surprise us with real innovative thinking and cast a real actor in their production.
as for to soon etc. Well I'm really interested in learning more about the guy and I'm wondering how much can be made without consent from the family.
Maybe Kutcher get's replaced by charlie Sheen on this movie.
sorkin and fincher just because they did the social network? noah wyle because we all have seen it before? Really, is this how far we learned to look?
what we should have learned from Apple is you go for the experience, not the most obvious solution.
Noah wiley worked in the first movie because he was a surprise, Kutcher is a bore and maybe he will surprise us by being twice as interesting as he is now, but that would only get him to 10% of the complexity of steve jobs.
What would be a cool choice? Someone like Mark Strong or Cliff Curtis, they can do the whole range, from manic Jobs to cool charming Jobs.
Let's not forget that Jobs is not a all american boy, his father is Syrian. Genetics play a role, you will have different sensibilities even when you grow up without the cultural influence of your father. this is one of the many many thing that makes Jobs so different.
We can only hope sony will surprise us with real innovative thinking and cast a real actor in their production.
as for to soon etc. Well I'm really interested in learning more about the guy and I'm wondering how much can be made without consent from the family.
Maybe Kutcher get's replaced by charlie Sheen on this movie.
Stallone, Van Damme, Chuck Norris. Will have some artistic license, lots of sex, explosions and a high body count. Subtitled "Death in Silicone Valley"