“When Steve Jobs hits movie theaters on Oct. 9, it will be the second film inspired on the innovator’s life in the space of just two years, on top of two existing biographies, a September documentary by Alex Gibney and a 2017 opera in Santa Fe,” Julia Zorthian reports for TIME Magazine. “But Steve Jobs will be the most authoritatively credentialed movie portrait by far.”
Zorthian reports, “In anticipation of the release, Lev Grossman spoke with writer Aaron Sorkin, director Danny Boyle and Jobs actor Michael Fassbender for the Sept. 7 issue of TIME.”
Michael Fassbender will not look like Steve Jobs — and the filmmakers are rolling with it
Fassbender does not share many of Steve Jobs’ well-known features, such as the dark hair and long nose. While Ashton Kutcher shared a striking resemblance with Apple’s cofounder and CEO in the 2013 movie Jobs, Boyle says the creative team of Steve Jobs is going for “a portrait…rather than a photograph.”
“We decided that I didn’t look anything like him, and that we weren’t going to try to make me look anything like him,” Fassbender adds. “We just wanted to try to encapsulate the spirit and make our own thing of it.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, we’re hoping it’s the work of art that Steve Jobs’ legacy deserves.
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