The same could be said about the Academy Award-winning director’s process of casting the biopic “Steve Jobs”, opening in theaters October. 9.
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Sir Jonathan had discussed the film, scripted by Aaron Sorkin, writer of The Social Network, with mutual friends who had seen it. “I don’t recognise this person at all”, he said. The screenwriter joked, “You may have heard, you may have read, that this movie did not have the world’s smoothest journey”. Kate Winslet, who plays Joanna Hoffman, Steve Jobs “right-hand-woman”, says: “He did have a soft side”. The production of the film was also supposed to happen in Sony, but it soon moved on to Universal.
The magazine could not confirm that with either DiCaprio or Bale, but an unnamed studio executive says that Laurene Jobs “did call one or two of the actors”. “They haven’t helped”, Boyle stated. “I’m not going to go into them”.
I’m not sure I understand the concept of “more important truth”, but I do know that Steve Jobs is a fascinating attempt to find a man within a myth, all while creating a new myth of its own.
The Hollywood Reporter quotes a source as saying: “Since the very beginning, Laurene Powell Jobs has been trying to kill this movie”.
Time Magazine: “What’s most hard about Sorkin’s intricate fantasy is not acknowledging Jobs’ darkness, but setting aside all hope of seeing the real man who inspired it”.
That includes himself, played by Jeff Daniels in the film. It does, however, feature Jobs’s daughter from a previous relationship, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
“We met three or four times for several hours”, Sorkin reported.
“I couldn’t believe how… he actually captured how I was feeling going through a few of the most intense scenes”, Sculley said.
While promoting the movie at New York Film Festival, he was asked how he prepared for the role, he quipped: “I studied Ashton Kutcher”.
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“The beauty of Steve Jobs is that it uses computers as catalysts, enabling Sorkin to bend Jobsian lore to his will and set off fireworks between his characters”. A new report suggests that Jobs’ widow was a big reason that the film took so long to be made. To combat that image, Apple recently released a tape of Jobs speaking to Apple employees on the eve of the original Apple iPhone unveiling.
