Universal studios has released the first poster of the film “Steve jobs” about the inventor of the iPhone and the co-founder of Apple. The main role in the film was played by Michael Fassbender.
The film will be based on the book by Walter Isaacson “Steve jobs” is the first and only biography, approved during the life of the founder of Apple. Initially remove the biopic was Sony, but at the end of last year, the company abandoned the project (presumably, this occurred after the project was eliminated contender for the leading role — Christian bale), having sold the movie rights to Universal.
Film biography will consist of three half-hour scenes from different periods of the life of Steve jobs. Each of them was supposed to tell about what happened backstage before the presentation of the key Apple products: Macintosh computer (1984), NeXT (1988) and the iPod (2001). The script for the film was written by Aaron Sorkin, and Director’s chair was occupied by Danny Boyle.
In other supporting roles are Kate Winslet (playing Joanna Hoffman, former head of the Macintosh team marketing), Seth Rogen (co-founder Steve Wozniak), Jeff Daniels (former Apple CEO John sculley) and Catherine Waterson (ex-girlfriend of Steve jobs Chrisann Brennan).
The last big-budget film on jobs, released in 2013. The main role in the film jOBS (in the Russian hire — “jobs: the Empire of temptation”) takes the Ashton Kutcher. The film tells about the life of Apple founder from 1971 to 2000, It covers events such as the creation of Apple, the expulsion of Steve jobs from the company, the founding NeXT and Pixar, and his return back to Apple. One of the scenes was filmed in the famous garage where jobs and Steve Wozniak organized the production of motherboards.
Painting with Fassbender in the lead role will be released on the wide screen 9 October.