Steve Jobs Biopic Filming to Take Place in 'Two Auditoriums, a Restaurant and a Garage'

[teslo]

That's an interesting idea for a movie. An imaginary director.

all the actors assume there is one, but it's just an empty chair with the word 'Director' on the back. they go through months of filming, and by the end, they've successfully completed an oscar-winning movie. upon calling the non-existent director to the stage for his acceptance speech, the actors then realize they did it all by themselves. cue emotional swelling music. roll credits.

 

[carltabet]

Whatever scene will be shot in a restaurant could be the day Steve met his biological father.

 

[diipii]

This will be a maelstromic orgy of self congratulatory, myopic, up its own *** palliative for insomnia. Apple should distance itself massively and preserve a last molecule of cool.

 

[Burger Thing]

SteveMovieRumors has just jumped a school of sharks.

No kidding. There used to be a time when headlines here on this forum were about iMacs, Mac Pros, Final Cut (when it was really Pro) etc.

Now we have topics about who plays the gardeners cat in the umpteenth movie about Jobs. Boy, I can't wait for the iWatch. Then we can have rumors about what bracelet Lagerfeld is choosing for the next fashion show.

But thanks, MRs for making this place more and more uninteresting and make me spend (waste) less time in front of the computer browsing this place (unfortunately for you also spending less time looking at ads or generating page hits ).

But probably not your fault either. Hardware and software wise nothing really exciting is happening in Cupertino these days.

 

[ShinySteelRobot]

This movie just seems like it's going to suck.

3 disconnected scenes of product launches? Two of those product launches are boring to boot. Who gives two turds about the next computer? snooze

Well, if you use a modern Mac or an iDevice of any type then you should give at least two turds about the NeXT computer. The software that was created for that computer, NeXTstep, is the father of Mac OS X and the grandfather of iOS. In fact, Apple bought NeXT precisely to get that NeXT software, NOT to bring Jobs back (that was viewed as merely a bonus, AFAICT).

Furthermore, there's another huge reason you should give more turds about the NeXT computer. You see, when Steve left Apple in 1985 he was downtrodden and demoralized. When he arrived at Apple in 1996 he was on the verge of becoming a triumphant leader.

Where was Steve and what was he working on between 1985 and 1996?

He was at NeXT when he was transformed from a rejected failure to the person would lead Apple's turnaround. His experiences at NeXT eventually helped him lead the greatest corporate turnaround in history and reestablish one of the biggest companies on the planet.

Don't know about you but I feel like that transformative stage of Steve's life (the NeXT computer) would be pretty important to include in a movie about Steve's life. IMHO that's worth at least two turds.

 

[puma1552]

Well, if you use a modern Mac or an iDevice of any type then you should give at least two turds about the NeXT computer. The software that was created for that computer, NeXTstep, is the father of Mac OS X and the grandfather of iOS. In fact, Apple bought NeXT precisely to get that NeXT software, NOT to bring Jobs back (that was viewed as merely a bonus, AFAICT).

Furthermore, there's another huge reason you should give more turds about the NeXT computer. You see, when Steve left Apple in 1985 he was downtrodden and demoralized. When he arrived at Apple in 1996 he was on the verge of becoming a triumphant leader.

Where was Steve and what was he working on between 1985 and 1996?

He was at NeXT when he was transformed from a rejected failure to the person would lead Apple's turnaround. His experiences at NeXT eventually helped him lead the greatest corporate turnaround in history and reestablish one of the biggest companies on the planet.

Don't know about you but I feel like that transformative stage of Steve's life (the NeXT computer) would be pretty important to include in a movie about Steve's life. IMHO that's worth at least two turds.

And all of this pure dweeb statusness is not going to resonate with the public whatsoever. Not to mention, all of what you posted above came after the next computer, well before any of its real significance was realized, while the movie is just going to focus on the launch of a computer the vast majority of the public viewing the movie has never heard of nor will ever care about. While the next computer may have been important, 30 minutes focusing on the actual boring product launch or lead up to the actual boring product launch just isn't going to be very interesting.

Let's face it, even in Apple's heyday, the keynotes can bore someone to tears. Even the iPhone keynote, people always talk about what a showman Jobs was - hardly, most of the product launches ive seen including the original iphone just werent that exciting. how is a movie about these going to be any better?

 

[ShinySteelRobot]

Before "The Social Network" movie came out people pretty much said exactly what you're saying about this new Jobs movie.

Not to mention, all of what you posted above came after the next computer, well before any of its real significance was realized

Perhaps, or perhaps not. Presumably the screenwriter/director will give the audience a little context before they show the NeXT launch. All it would take would be to mention that virtually all Apple's devices today run a derivative of what runs the NeXT machine. Let's give them a least a smidgeon of benefit of the doubt?

Also I doubt they'll rehash the whole on-stage product announcement. Most of the scenes will presumably be offstage drama around the launch.

30 minutes focusing on the actual boring product launch or lead up to the actual boring product launch just isn't going to be very interesting.

Based on what you've said it's clear you're not interested in what goes on behind the scenes. But IMHO if the recent Sony Pictures email leaks are any guide, what goes on behind the scenes for any major product--movie or computer or whatever--can be downright fascinating. Some people are interested in that sort of thing, and some aren't. If you're not interested by it, don't go see the movie.

 

[powers74]

Then where the hell does John Sculley come into all this?

 

[SHNXX]

Then where the hell does John Sculley come into all this?

Gil would be even more interesting.

 

[HarryWild]

I been keeping up on the gossip on the biopic of Steve Jobs! It looks like it going to be a dud! All of the information below is based on rumors:

The picture when through two directors and three leading actors before ending up with Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender.

Budget went from $220 million Sony to now $90 million for Universal!

 

[poppy10]

This. Sites like Verge and this one are just as culpable as the hackers who stole the information in the first place. If you buy a stolen car from a thief and sell it to another party, that's trafficking in stolen property. Same with the IP stolen from Sony.

It's really funny watching sites like the Verge contort themselves, trying to justify why they are publishing stolen private emails when just a few months ago they were taking the moral high ground and castigating anyone who was interested in the stolen photos of Celebgate.

Here's the Verge then:

It's still not clear how the private emails were obtained, but there's a good chance the victims were hacked — it's happened before. Now, the hunt is on for the latest perpetrator. While that's going on, people are looking for other things to blame, like victims that didn't use better passwords. In any event, there's a small group of one or more people responsible for this heinous intrusion.

The perpetrator of this crime will probably one day be unmasked, vilified by the decent and heroized by jerks, and then fall into oblivion the moment they're shipped to prison. But just like the photos themselves, the jerks who inflamed this spectacle, the ones who shared the emails and poked the victims publicly, will still be around.

Let them know the internet is written in ink. Let their horrible ideas be preserved and ridiculed publicly. It's their own fault.

And now:

The dominant internet-age school of thought — which I generally agree with — is that once information is public it becomes neutral.

We ended up aggregating a lot and breaking a few of these stories anyway, in an unspoken, admittedly not terribly well-examined agreement that the floodgates had already been opened. The contents of the leak are already public; they're just not in a very user-friendly format until a news outlet decides to amplify a piece of it.

So this is the horse we've chosen in this race. We think it's valuable to our readers and anyone who plans to spend any time on the internet in the future. We are all also very aware that had we waited a couple more hours, it would probably no longer be our horse.
We'd reblog it, though

Simply substituting the word emails for photos shows up their breathaking hypocrisy. Laughable.

 

[Archer1440]

This was precisely my point, thank you for further illuminating it.

 

[krravi]

So Michael Fassbender was selected because his character was such an A**hole in the movie '12 years a slave".

Wonder what kind of impression the producers of the movie had about Steve, or were they close?

 

[johnnyturbouk]

That's an interesting idea for a movie. An imaginary director.

Yes, another example would be Michael Bay