If you’re one of the many people who can’t wait to see the Steve Jobs biopic directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender, the trailer for a new documentary on Apple’s late CEO may scratch your itch and then some. Gibney might be best known for his other 2015 documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. He was a complex man, and Gibney’s doc looks to dig into the many sides of Jobs. Theh upcoming documentary from Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films was shared withMashable. The senior VP of Internet Software and Services at Apple has described the film on Twitter as “an inaccurate and mean-spirited view of my friend” and “not a reflection of the Steve I knew”.
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The film opens in select theaters on September 4, but it debuted at the South by Southwest film festival earlier this year. Stephen Silver of EntertainmentTell called the film “Wholly unoriginal” stating that “We’ve seen not only this same material but versions of this same take on the material from multiple books, magazine articles, thinkpieces, one-man monologue shows, and even the Ashton Kutcher Jobs movie”. He was referring to a bonus Jobs received while working at Atari for improving the game Breakout, for which Jobs turned to Woz for help. From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, “Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine’ is a critical examination of Jobs who was at once revered as an iconoclastic genius and a barbed-tongued tyrant”.
