Steve Jobs, directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, is set to premiere on October 23. Based on Walter Isaacson’s bestselling biography of the Apple founder, Steve Jobs, “takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of a brilliant man at its epicenter” (www.stevejobsthefilm.com). Michael Fassbender stars at Steve Jobs. Justin Chang from Variety said, “Fassbender is enthralling. It’s impossible to take your eyes off him. Academy Award winner, Kate Winslet plays Macintosh’s former marketing chief- Joanna Hoffman. Seth Rogen plays Apple cofounder, Steve Wozniak and Jeff Daniels stars as Apple’s former CEO, John Sculley.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the former Apple CEO, John Scully spoke with writer Aaron Sorkin for the screenplay and actor Jeff Daniels, who portrays him and said, “I think it’s extraordinary entertainment. I think it will be every bit as successful as ‘The Social Network’ was about Mark Zuckerberg.” Sculley said he was “taken” by Daniels’s efforts to understand and portray him, and Daniels “accurately summarized a lot of the things I felt then, and feel now.” Steve Jobs explores Scully’s relationship with Jobs from the beginning of their friendship when Jobs convinced Sculley to give up his job as Pepsi’s CEO and join him at Apple, to their falling out which led to Jobs’s departure from Apple after the board sided with Sculley in a disagreement. Scully said, “There was a lot of creative license taken. Many of the actual conversations didn’t exactly happen when they occur in the film.”
In addition, Schully added, “Part of [Job’s] personality was he was a passionate perfectionist, but there were so many other parts of Steve’s personality that I knew because Steve and I were not only business partners, but we were incredibly close friends for several years… “I think those aren’t the aspects that are focused on in this movie.”
Steve Jobs revolutionized modern technology, and his biography is designed to engage viewers and shed light on the struggles of pursuing a dream, maintaining relationships and ultimately being successful. Lev Grossman for Time Magazine said the film is, “the authoritative depiction of the man who transformed at least four entire industries” and Rodrigo Perez from The Playlist said, “Steven Jobs will leave you breathless.”
