“Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene, may have done everything in her power to keep ‘Steve Jobs’ from getting made — and reportedly warned Leo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to stay away from the film — but Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs from ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan was crucial to the movie,” Carlos Greer reports for The NY Post.
Greer reports, “‘I talked to everybody you see [portrayed] in the movie. Lisa was very important to talk to. She did not want to talk to [biographer] Walter [Isaacson] when her father was alive, and that’s understandable. She was ready to talk to me so I spent a lot of time with her,’ screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told the Verge’s Nilay Patel at a screening Wednesday.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A movie based on a book which contained no input from the person upon which the movie focuses. Only in Hollywood.
Steve Jobs the movie is as based upon Steve Jobs as much as it is on The Art of the Deal.
SEE ALSO:
Universal releases new 2:20-minute scene from ‘Steve Jobs’ – October 9, 2015
The Steve Jobs in ‘Steve Jobs’ is a fictional character invented by Aaron Sorkin – October 8, 2015
Jony Ive joins chorus of insiders’ complaints about new ‘Steve Jobs’ movie – October 8, 2015
The Strange Saga of ‘Steve Jobs’: A widow’s threats, high-powered spats and the Sony hack – October 7, 2015
‘Steve Jobs’ director Danny Boyle warns of ‘tremendous, terrifying power’ of tech giants like Apple – October 7, 2015
Forbes reviews ‘Steve Jobs’: ‘An electrifying interpretive dance of abstract biographical cinema’ – October 7, 2015
Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa skips movie screening, but parties with cast – October 7, 2015
Philip Elmer-DeWitt reviews ‘Steve Jobs’ movie: ‘I loved it’ – October 7, 2015
Aaron Sorkin: Steve Jobs just wanted to be loved – October 6, 2015
The ‘Steve Jobs’ movie that Sony, DiCaprio, and Bale didn’t want is now an Oscar favorite – October 6, 2015
Michael Fassbender already the odds-on favorite to win an Oscar for ‘Steve Jobs’ – October 5, 2015
Steve Jobs’ widow and friends take aim at Hollywood over ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic – October 5, 2015
‘Steve Jobs’ biopic too nasty to win Best Picture award – October 2, 2015
Andy Hertzfeld: ‘Steve Jobs’ movie ‘deviates from reality everywhere’ but ‘aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths’ – October 2, 2015
Aaron Sorkin blasts Apple’s Tim Cook over ‘Steve Jobs’ critique: ‘You’ve got a lot of nerve’ – September 25, 2015
‘Character’ is not just your life’s work, but also your personal relationships.
Greatest thing about ‘Merica – they can’t make you watch anything you don’t want to…YET!
Seth Rogen tweeted today, “Fück you Ben Carson” to the neurosurgeon Republican candidate.
real class.
I second that emotion: Fuck you, Ben Carson! And the entire clown circus!
But who are you to bring this up in a thread about a Steve Jobs movie?!?
He’s IN the movie, you idiot.
“Dat’ uppity docta’ ain’t a-stayin’ on da’ plantation wid’ da’ rest o’ da’ darkies and be a-votin’ fo’ da librahs, wes gots ta’ put him down.”
Colonel Cornpone, ret.
DNC Chairman
(The Party that brought you the KKK and Lyndon Johnson)
The Democrats can’t stand Ben Carson because he dared to leave their plantation and do great things. They want black people to be held back so that they can ride in to the “rescue” with government programs that do nothing but keep them down. The KKK should be proud. I’m a big supporter of Ben Carson. Both he and Ted Cruz get my campaign donations.
re Carson: precisely.
It’s beginning to dawn on me that Sorkin, when handed the Isaacson book about Steve Jobs, gave it a cursory glance and then conspicuously dropped it in a wastebasket, the same way Russell Crowe (playing John Nash in A Beautiful Mind) did with a calculus textbook in the classroom scene. Both went on to deliver lectures forged from their own fecund imaginations, never referring to tawdry precedent. Mozart and Lennon did the same, and I can envision Steve Jobs himself performing this topological twist. Facts are nails in the wall, feelings what give rise to architecture.
that was quite profound, especially the last line.