“Aaron Sorkin has thus far said relatively little about the Steve Jobs biopic he’s writing for Sony Pictures,” Chris Welch reports for The Verge. “But the acclaimed screenwriter finally let some details slip today at The Hero Summit, an event presented by Newsweek and The Daily Beast.”
“During an interview, Sorkin revealed that the movie will be comprised of three, 30-minute sections that each take place backstage in the moments immediately preceding some of Jobs’ most iconic keynotes,” Welch reports. “‘This entire movie is going to be three scenes and three scenes only that all take place in realtime,’ Sorkin said. ‘A half hour for you in the audience is the same as a half hour to a character on the screen.'”
Welch reports, “The three presentations that will serve as backdrops in the film will be the original Macintosh, the debut of NeXT, and the first-ever iPod reveal in 2001.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Not iPhone? That was Apple at its very best.
So, essentially it’s a movie about Steve Jobs giving a presentation. Folks, you can watch the Apple keynotes online for free in the Podcast app.
Umm, apparently you missed the part where it says the scenes take place “BACKSTAGE”
Theses scenes are about what Steve was like behind the scenes at three integral points in the history of Apple, they are not about or the same as watching the product keynotes.
Steve rehearsed his lines so well that what takes place backstage is magically transposed front stage.
I’d much prefer watching the polished Steve than the rough edged Steve. I hope it doesn’t diminish the aura.
Dude, you’re missing the point..
Steve onstage was a performer giving a performance.
This movie is about what the real person was like backstage – tantrums and all, not the polished performer that we all saw.
If you’d rather watch a polished performance then by all means watch the keynotes, but this movie is something entirely different.
I would have guessed iPhone instead of iPod too.
Not a bad idea, as the three launches are separated by a number of years, so you get Early Steve, Middle Steve, and moderately Late Steve. The iPod launch back in 2001, was still before the Apple turnaround, so I wonder if perhaps he shouldn’t have used the iPhone launch in 2007 instead. That was Steve’s best keynote, though it’s available online.
I was just wondering if perhaps, using Steve’s three stories at the Stanford Commencement Speech wouldn’t have been better as the basis of Sorkin’s three act play.
I want more!
More than just three scenes, three points in history. Why neglect the entire modern era of Apple? How is this not interesting and massively relevant?
This is the Apple that I know and personally remember. The iPhone, the MBA. Why stop with the “olden days”??
Why not the “Bill Gates on the jumbotron” show? That was kinda iconic and dramatic.
Sorkin’s brilliant at putting viewers in the center of the action. Regardless of the 3 events, the human drama will be riveting.
So Jobs is going to be defined by the 30 minutes before a presentation?
You don’t think that what he was going to say was already pretty much set in stone at that point, you are probably living in a fantasy world.
The most intriguing thing about the interview was trying to stifle the appalling image of Tina Brown trying to walk on and off stage in those stilettos.