“Charles will oversee development of the script and will direct the half-hour pilot of a series written by Dan Lyons,” Fleming reports. “A technology consultant for Newsweek, Lyons created the Fake Steve Jobs blog…”
MacDailyNews Take: Plus, Dan Lyons is a royal asshole.
Fleming continues, “The show’s lead charcter, Tom Rhodes, is a composite of Jobs and other Silicon Valley titans, and the comedy is described as a savage satire, a study of ego, power and greed. iCON becomes the second original pilot for the EPIX pay channel. ‘We are attempting to do nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane,’ Charles said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: At any given time, more people are watching the average kindergartner’s video-taped dance recital than “EPIX,” whatever that is. And, we wouldn’t advise anyone other than Dan Lyons to hold their breath waiting for the pilot to appear on Apple’s iTunes Store.
If Jobso is still running Apple at year-end, I’ll be shocked. – Dan Lyons, June 28, 2008
Unfortunately, the voltage must have been too low.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin T.” for the heads up.]