The new Steve Jobs biopic from Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin, which stars Michael Fassbender as the Apple founder, has a release date.
NewsWith a production story surely as gripping as almost any fall drama to be released this year, the Danny Boyle/Aaron Sorkin Steve Jobs film will finally arrive in theaters later this year. And with Michael Fassbender set to play the legendary Apple co-founder, our interest is surely piqued more than it has been by previous Steve Jobs biopics.
Universal Pictures announced Wednesday that Steve Jobs will make it to the big screen on October 9, 2015, which it so happens is only one week later than the weekend that Sorkin’s previous Palo Alto bio-drama, The Social Network, bowed in 2010.
Set during three critical moments of Steve Jobs’ life—the backstage pre-show launches for 1984’s Macintosh Computer, 1988’s NeXT, and the crowning achievement of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs seeks to paint an “intimate portrait” of the brilliant mind that was at the epicenter of the 20th century’s digital revolution.
I am somewhat surprised that it opted to avoid his full resurrection of Apple in the 21st century with the iPod/iTunes, as well as the ascension of smartphones in everyday life with the iPhone (not to mention Jobs’ own turbulent final years). But the very play-like approach that Sorkin has attempted, which is seemingly rejecting biopic formula, is incredibly welcome.
Steve Jobs will star Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past, 12 Years a Slave) as the Apple pioneer, Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) as Joanna Hoffman, the former marketing chief of Macintosh, Seth Rogen (The Interview) as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom) as former Apple CEO John Sculley, Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire) as Andy Hertzfeld, an original member of the Macintosh development team.
Steve Jobs has had a belabored production journey itself when it was initially a David Fincher film at Sony before Boyle took the reins—and it then ended up at Universal for reasons that the Sony hack have made infamous.
You know you can’t wait to get your hands on this new project…
