“The Steve Jobs biopic is finally up and running,” Oliver Gettell reports for The Los Angeles Times.
“Principal photography has begun in San Francisco on the Aaron Sorkin-scripted, Danny Boyle-directed film starring Michael Fassbender as the charismatic tech innovator and Apple co-founder, Universal Pictures announced Tuesday,” Gettell reports. “The studio also confirmed that the film will costar Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, the former Macintosh marketing chief; Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, the former Apple CEO; Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend; Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Mac developers; and Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Jobs.”
Read more in the full article here.
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I wonder how The Woz feels about Rogen.
No doubt he’ll be letting us know.
Another boring, inaccurate movie about Steve Jobs I’ll never watch.
It must be a slow news day!
I hope this isn’t just another boring POS trying to make a buck off Apple and its history. After the crap we’ve seen so far on the subject I don’t have any faith left to offer.
Lame idea, the pinnacle of hollywood’s display for unoriginal production.
Seth Rogen couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag. He’ll no doubt be playing himself as he does in all his movies and hoping we don’t notice he’s nothing like the Woz.
I still love watching Pirates of Silicon Valley, probably the most realistic portrayal of the Birth of the Silicon Valley
I’m with you on that one and Noah Wiley was a great Steve Jobs.