The great Oscar-winning screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, went on Bloomberg and himself confirmed that Christian Bale will play the late great Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for Sony Pictures’ adaptation, directed by Danny Boyle. And Sorkin said that Bale basically didn’t even have to do jack to get the role.
“We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,”
“He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting.”
“He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined,” Sorkin said. “There isn’t a scene or a frame that he’s not in. So it’s an extremely difficult part and he is gonna crush it.”
In Aaron Sorkin’s words and writing I trust. Hell yeah Bale’s gonna crush it, he’s going to show Ashton Kutcher the right way to play Steve Jobs in a biopic movie.
Academy Award® winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin adapts STEVE JOBS, a motion picture based on the best-selling biography of the legendary Apple co-founder by award-winning journalist Walter Isaacson.
Sorkin previously explained that he’d approach this biopic in three scenes only. The first one being Jobs’ time with the mac, the second one being Jobs’ time with NeXT after he had left Apple and the third one being Jobs’ time with iPod.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
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