He also shot on location in the actual places these events happened, which lends an air of authenticity to the film.
As he mentions in the extras, the movie was shot with 3 different types of film to give each "act" a distinct look and feel. He alienated the people who worked for him, and he pushed out co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen Knocked up) and one time Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels The Newsroom).ĭirector Danny Boyle ( Slumdog Millionaire) does a fantastic job of pacing, camera angles and aesthetic. He denied paternity of his daughter for many years. While the launches and products are an important part of who Steve Jobs was, the movie looks more closely at the relationships he formed and destroyed during his "rise to fame".įrom this version of his biography, we get the impression that Jobs was a complicated, hard man. The second takes place four years later and the final, "third act" is a decade after that with the introduction of the iMac. The first, or act one, is in 1984 just before the launch of the MAC. The film focuses on the time frame immediately preceding three important launches in Jobs' and Apple's history.
While there have been a few movies and books about his life, none take the same view as Steve Jobs coming out on Blu-Ray and DVD on February 16 th. Whatever he was, there is no denying he was a visionary and most probably brilliant. To others, he was an over-inflated ego, and, to a select few, he was the closest to God they think they will ever get. To some, Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender X-Men: First Class) was brilliant. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson. Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.