The Dark Knight and Exodus star bails on the Apple visionary’s life story.
Director Danny Boyle is not having a good Monday: according to the Hollywood Reporter, Christian Bale has decided that he doesn’t want to play Steve Jobs in Boyle’s biopic of the late Apple co-founder and visionary. The film was slated to begin shooting this winter from a script by Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom), but has just experienced the film equivalent of a major system crash with Bale’s exit. Where that leaves the casting of Seth Rogen as Jobs’ partner Steve Wozniak is anyone’s guess at this point.
To his credit (we suppose), Bale apparently concluded after a lot of thought that he was simply not right for the part. Like Joaquin Phoenix and his ultimate decision to pass on Doctor Strange, we’d rather see an actor step out than take a role in which he or she was not fully invested. Of course, the hundreds of other people who may now be out of jobs (no pun intended) on the film might have a different opinion.
It remains to be seen whether Boyle and the producers scramble to recast or put the whole thing on hold. Bale, by the way, was the second A-list actor to pass on the role after Leonardo DiCaprio. Is anyone getting the sense that this might just be a good time to shut down instead of restart?
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