First there was 28 Days Later (2002), then there was 28 Weeks Later (2007), so when are we getting 28 Months Later?
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Laurene Powell Jobs – who opposes the Danny Boyle-directed project – was reportedly so keen to stop it being made that she personally contacted the 40-year-old actor and fellow Hollywood star Christian Bale, who was also linked to the role.
Aaron Sorkin has come clean about his opposition to the casting of Michael Fassbender in new movie Steve Jobs after his emails about the film were exposed during last year’s (14) Sony database hack. “It’s the usual thing: it’s not about whether people think it’s a good idea that you’re directing”. 28 Months Later is still a ways away from scurrying into theaters, though, with Boyle noting that both he and Andrew Macdonald – who served as producer across the original installments – still have work to do. It’s whether you respond to the script or not. I got the script and I went, “That was incredible”.
“About two years ago, Danny started collaborating on the potential to make Trainspotting 2, another sequel”, he recalled. “It takes me five minutes to find the power button on my Mac”, Sorkin said before explaining that Steve Wozniak was hired as a consultant for the film. “You don’t want to make these people mad at you – you really don’t”.
Like the computers he sold so brilliantly, Steve Jobs was complicated, charismatic and coldly inhuman.
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“It’s in a process at the moment and I wouldn’t have any inhibition about being involved in it at all“, he continued.
