Hank Azaria has joined the cast of the Showtime series “Super Pumped,” which details the rise of Uber, to play Apple CEO Tim Cook Variety reports on Thursday.
Azaria is attached to play Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple. He joins previously announced cast members Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kyle Chandler, and Kerry Bishé. Gordon-Levitt will star as Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick, while Chandler will play Texas venture capitalist Bill Gurley. Bishé will star as Austin Geidt, Uber employee number four.
Planned as anthology, the first season of “Super Pumped” is based on Mike Isaac’s book of the same name. Pivoting on Kalanick and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with his mentor Gurley, the series will depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley. The series will focus on a different major business world story each season.
MacDailyNews Take: In May 2016, Apple invested $1 billion in Didi Chuxing, China’s version of Uber. Later that year, Didi Chuxing bought Uber’s China business in a $35 billion deal. Uber sold its operations in China to DiDi in exchange for an 18% stake in DiDi and DiDi agreed to invest (Apple’s) $1 billion in Uber.
An aside: Joseph Gordon-Levitt also currently stars in Mr. Corman for Apple TV+.
Tim Cook? Super Pumped? There’s a joke in here somewhere.
Super Exit from Apple is what I am wishing for…
Wasn’t Uber the company that was allowed by Apple to use ‘deep’ APIs in iOS not accessible to other 3rd party developers for their App?
I understand it’s slated to premiere at the World-Wide Center for Sleep Assistance.
Would have been more realistic if they cast a potted plant
Who plays the enslaved forced labor factory workers inside the CCP detention centers making Apple products for subcontractors?
Again, Super Pumped would be about Panos Panay, not fucking Uber