The battle to get the second major bio-pic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to the big screen has been a monumental effort. After a series of director changes, Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) took over the reigns and the search for the perfect actor to embody the visionary mogul began.
Things seemed to fall into place when Christian Bale, who is not only one of the best living actors on Earth, but also had a striking resemblance to Jobs. The actor and role seemed to be the perfect match. However, Bale eventually dropped out of the project leaving the production scrambling to find another A-list leading man. They needed someone that could handle the dialogue heavy script by Aaron Sorkin and fill the boots of such a recognizable public figure. They already had filled out much of the supporting cast including Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder and engineer Steve Wozniak. Finally they secured actor Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past) to portray Jobs and the production aggressively ramped up.
We get our first brief glimpse of Steve Jobs in the new teaser, which gives audiences a taste of the upcoming bio-pic. The film is reported to center on a series of presentations that Jobs made during his famous expos, where he would debut new technology that would go on to change the world. Fassbender and Rogen are also joined by Kate Winslet (Titanic) and Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber To) in what is looking to be a performance heavy film. Enjoy the trailer.
Official Synopsis:
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, STEVE JOBS takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
STEVE JOBS is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
Steve Jobs opens in theaters on October 9th, 2015.
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Source: Collider
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In the world of Batman v Superman and Marvel Civil War, we wanna see all the stars battle each other. And Steve Jobs ultimate match is Bill Gates. Watch the battle of the century!!!