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Universal Studios Picks Up Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs Movie, Michael Fassbender to Star

nothing against sorkin really, but i doubt his decision to make the most recent event in the film 15 years old. with first iPhone event it would be much more interesting... i am apple fan, and i read the book, but i dont like this only old event concept...
 
rattata said:
nothing against sorkin really, but i doubt his decision to make the most recent event in the film 15 years old. with first iPhone event it would be much more interesting... i am apple fan, and i read the book, but i dont like this only old event concept...
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To be honest the movie is too early. Let us start to miss him first. The way these biography films are up on the conveyor belt before the grass has time to grow over the grave is pretty disingenuous stuff. But hey, money talks.
 
I hope the movie turns out to be good but I think they're going about it all wrong. Focusing on a few product launches isn't nearly enough to reflect on the life of Steve Jobs and the book based on him. Here's what I think needs to happen. This movie should be the first biopic (that I know of) that's divided into three movies. Part 1 should start at Jobs' birth and should end with his ouster from Apple. Part 2 should start with the founding on Next and should end with Next being bought out by Apple. Part 3 should start with his return to Apple and should end with his resignation from his CEO position.

Each movie would have it's own theme. Part 1 would represent Steve Jobs, who against all odds became extremely successful at a young age only to lose everything that he worked so hard to build. Part 2 would represent Steve Jobs slightly maturing while struggling regain the level of success he once had. The success of Toy Story and Apple's purchase of NeXT would be a bittersweet ending. Part 3 would be about Steve Jobs being on top of the would and having all the control he had ever wanted only for him to gracefully give up that control towards the end of his life.

I know this isn't going to happen but one could dream.
 
Making a film about a computer salesman must be like making a film about paint drying.
 
When you get an actor as brilliant as Fassbender, you don't care about whether he looks like Jobs or not. Yes Bale looked a lot like an older Jobs, and Kutcher looked astonishingly like the younger one, but Fassbender is a better actor than both of them.

I still wish it was David Fincher directing though.
 
I'm still a doubting thomas on this project and the longer it languishes, the harder it will be to make. I'm not sold that in this day and age you can have a successful biography. Sure it can be done, but I think the odds are against you.
 
Is there really such a huge interest for this? We already had the Kutcher movie, and the book. Why this movie, i mean its cool that he made apple and all but still, he was just another tech CEO among many others, big deal. Hes not the saviour.
 
They should give me a crack at this pig because I can fix it with just one simple addition, ROBOTS. Are you with me?
 
i don't mind seth rogan, but he is a worse choice than josh gad. i'm not surprised A-listers keep bailing. sorkin & co set a tone with that choice and not many people see it as 'workable
 
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