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Steve Jobs
Teaser poster
Directed byDanny Boyle
Screenplay byAaron Sorkin
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyAlwin H. Küchler
Edited byElliot Graham
Music byDaniel Pemberton
Distributed byUniversal Pictures[1]
Release dates
  • September 5, 2015 (2015-09-05) (Telluride)
  • October 9, 2015 (2015-10-09) (United States)
Running time
122 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[3]
Box office$175,000[3]

Steve Jobs is a 2015 American drama film based on the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role. The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady, Scott Rudin, Danny Boyle and Christian Colson, and written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both from Walter Isaacson's biography Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

The official full trailer was released to the Internet on July 1, 2015.[4] Steve Jobs premiered at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2015[5] and had a limited release in New York and Los Angeles on October 9, 2015. It will open nationwide in the U.S. on October 23, 2015.[6][7]

Plot

According to the film's official website: "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."[8]

Cast

Production

Development

Sony Pictures acquired the rights to Isaacson's book in October 2011,[10] hiring Aaron Sorkin to adapt it.[11] In May 2012, Sorkin officially confirmed that he was writing the script,[12] and had enlisted the help of Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, for historical accuracy.[13]

Sorkin later stated that his screenplay would consist of three 30 minute long scenes covering 16 years of Jobs' life.[14][15][16] Sorkin also developed the screenplay around Jobs' relationship with a few key people: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Jobs’ "right-hand-woman" Joanna Hoffman,[17] former Apple CEO John Sculley, original Mac team developer Andy Hertzfeld, and Jobs' first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, as well as her mother Chrisann Brennan.[17] Sorkin had a chance to speak with all of them while developing the screenplay including Lisa (who did not communicate with Walter Isaacson while he was developing his book).[17] However, Sorkin has stated that much of the dialogue is fiction.[17]

In November 2014, Sony pulled the plug on the film, putting it in turnaround.[18][19] Universal Pictures acquired the project shortly thereafter.[20]

Pre-production

George Clooney and Noah Wyle (who previously portrayed Jobs in the 1999 TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley) were rumored to be considered for the title role.[21] In 2013, another project about Jobs was released, starring Ashton Kutcher.[22]

After Sorkin's completion of the script in January 2014, development on the project began to heat up when David Fincher entered negotiations to direct the film,[23] with Fincher selecting Christian Bale as his choice for Jobs.[24] However, in April, Fincher exited the project due to contractual disputes.[25] Danny Boyle was then hired to direct, with Leonardo DiCaprio in discussions for the role.[26] In October, Dicaprio exited, with Bale, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper being considered.[27]

Sorkin revealed in an interview that Bale was once again cast in the role,[28] with Seth Rogen entering negotiations to play Wozniak, and Jessica Chastain being eyed for a part.[29] Ike Barinholtz revealed he had auditioned for the role of Wozniak.[30] In November, Bale once again left the project,[31] with Michael Fassbender emerging as a frontrunner to replace him, and Scarlett Johansson reportedly being offered a role before Sony suddenly pulled the plug on the project, putting it in turnaround.[18][19] Universal Pictures then acquired the project.[20] Natalie Portman entered into negotiations for a role,[32] but in December she withdrew from the film.[33] At the same time, Jeff Daniels began negotiations for a role and Michael Stuhlbarg joined the cast as Andy Hertzfeld.[33][34][35][36] On December 19, Kate Winslet entered negotiations to star in the film, with Fassbender and Rogen confirmed to star[37] and her participation in the film as Joanna Hoffman was confirmed on January 27.[38] In a 2015 interview for Entertainment Weekly, Winslet said about her casting in the film, "I heard about it through a crew member who I happened to be working with [in Australia on The Dressmaker], I didn’t even care what role it was. I just wanted to be in it. Found out the nature of the role. Googled [Hoffman]. Found one picture of her. Got my husband to go to a wig shop. Buy a short-haired dark wig. Stuck it on my head. Sent a photograph of myself to [producer] Scott Rudin. Danny Boyle came to Melbourne and we had a meeting and he gave me the part."[39] Daniels was also cast as John Sculley.[38] Katherine Waterston was cast as Chrisann Brennan on December 23[40] will also appear in the film.[38] and Perla Haney-Jardine was cast as Lisa Brennan-Jobs on January 5, 2015.[38][41][42] On February 11, John Ortiz had joined the film to play the GQ magazine journalist, Joel Pforzheimer.[43]

Filming

Principal photography began on January 16, 2015, at Jobs's childhood home in Los Altos, California[44] with additional scenes shot throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.[45] Production next moved to Berkeley on January 23–24, 2015 (at La Méditerranée, a restaurant on College Avenue in the Elmwood district).[46][47] On January 29, 2015, filming continued at Flint Center, De Anza college (the location of the original unveiling of the Macintosh in 1984).[48][49] In late February, production moved to San Francisco and took place at the Opera House, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall and the Civic Center.[50] Filming wrapped on April 10, 2015, after an overnight shoot in the San Francisco Bay Area.[51][52]

Post-production

London-based studio Union created the film's Visual effects (VFX).[53]

Music

Untitled

Daniel Pemberton composed the music for the film. The soundtrack album also features songs by The Libertines, Bob Dylan and The Maccabees. It was released digitally on October 9, 2015 and will be released in physical format on October 23, 2015.[56]

No.TitleLength
1."The Musicians Play Their Instruments?"1:04
2."It’s Not Working"3:44
3."Child (Father)"1:49
4."Jack It Up"3:59
5."The Circus of Machines I (Overture)"2:58
6."Russian Roulette"1:46
7."Change the World"5:09
8."The Skylab Plan"5:01
9."Don't Look Back into the Sun"3:01
10."…I Play the Orchestra"2:22
11."The Circus of Machines II (Allegro)"4:30
12."Revenge"9:38
13."Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"4:37
14."It’s an Abstract"2:27
15."Life Out of Balance"4:06
16."I Wrote Ticket to Ride"2:59
17."The Nature of People"4:04
18."1998. The New Mac"2:10
19."Father (Child)"3:27
20."Remember"4:11
21."Grew Up at Midnight"4:00
22."Shelter from the Storm"5:02
Total length:82:04

Reception

Critical response

Steve Jobs has received critical acclaim. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a rating of 89%, based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The site's consensus reads, "Like the tech giant co-founded by its subject, Steve Jobs gathers brilliant people to deliver a product whose elegance belies the intricate complexities at its core."[57] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 83 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."[58]

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review by saying that "racing in high gear from start to finish, Danny Boyle’s electric direction tempermentally complements Sorkin’s highly theatrical three-act study" and praising Fassbender added that "Fassbender doesn’t closely physically resemble the man, he fully delivers the essentials of how we have come to perceive the man."[59] Justin Chang of Variety extolled the film as "a wildly creative fantasia [...] a brilliant, maddening, ingeniously designed and monstrously self-aggrandizing movie."[60] Sasha Stone of TheWrap states that Fassbender gives "a stunning knockout" performance as Jobs in a film that is "a kind of talk opera" which to some might seem to be "Sorkin overkill but the same could be said for the best of them: David Mamet, Edward Albee, Paddy Chayefsky and even William Shakespeare. Sorkin is not trying to do anything but write in his own style, thus this film and its exceptional dialogue leaves its mark as profoundly as Jobs himself left his."[61] Eric Kohn of Indiewire gave the film a "B+" stating that "the cast vanishes into their parts [...] buried under makeup and a distinctive Polish accent, Winslet's chameleonesque transformation is bested only by Fassbender, whose vivid expressions and constant movement turn him into a physical marvel." He also noted that Boyle "drops his usual whirlwind editing style and instead develops an engrossing chamber piece."[62]

Benjamin Lee of The Guardian was more critical of Steve Jobs. Giving it three out of five stars, he suggests that "despite the film constantly informing you of just how incredibly important everything all is, it’s disappointingly difficult to truly care about what’s taking place." He places the blame on Sorkin's "dominating" script, arguing that "the dialogue stifles" and that "the actors are tasked with trying to wrangle enough breathing space to offer up something of their own." He also feels that while it is "Boyle’s best film for years," his direction "plays second fiddle" to a script that verges on a kind of "Apple-sponsored hero iWorship."[63]

Historical accuracy

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak (who consulted with Sorkin before he had written the screenplay) commented on a trailer released on July 1, 2015 that he doesn't "talk that way... I would never accuse the graphical interface of being stolen. I never made comments to the effect that I had credit (genius) taken from me... The lines I heard spoken were not things I would say but carried the right message, at least partly... I felt a lot of the real Jobs in the trailer, although a bit exaggerated."[64] Wozniak did not ask to see the final script because he did not "think that would be appropriate... it is the creative work of the producer and writer and actors and director and others."[64] He also noted that the trailer's reference to Jobs' initial rejection of his daughter Lisa evoked an emotional response: "It was hard on me, even being quiet, when Jobs refused to acknowledge his child when the money didn’t matter, and I can almost cry remembering it."[64] Wozniak added that he felt honored to be portrayed by Rogen[64] and had spoken with him prior to the beginning of production.[65] Rogen has also commented on his meeting with Wozniak, stating that "his feelings towards Jobs were very complex and interesting. Part of it was taking it at face value and part was reading between the lines."[17]

In September 2015, after seeing a rough cut of the film, Wozniak stated that he felt like he "was actually watching Steve Jobs and the others [....] not actors playing them, I give full credit to Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin for getting it so right."[66]

Joanna Hoffman

When discussing her audition for the film, Winslet later commented that she "heard about it through a crew member who I happened to be working with [in Australia on The Dressmaker], I didn’t even care what role it was. I just wanted to be in it. Found out the nature of the role. Googled [Hoffman]. Found one picture of her. Got my husband to go to a wig shop. Buy a short-haired dark wig. Stuck it on my head. Sent a photograph of myself to [producer] Scott Rudin. Danny Boyle came to Melbourne and we had a meeting and he gave me the part."[39]

Winslet spent considerable time with Joanna Hoffman to prepare for the role before production began.[67] She noted that Hoffman "has a softness to her. She came to America as a young woman and achieved a great deal. One thing that was unique about her as a figure in Steve’s life was that she didn’t need anything from him. She just needed for him to be the best version of himself. And that’s what really set their relationship apart from any relationship with all his other colleagues."[67] Winslet credits Hoffman's difficult childhood (that began in Armenia) with her ability to manage Jobs.[17]

On the nature of the relationship between Hoffman and Jobs, Winslet said that she and Fassbender "were able to develop as literally co-workers. I do believe it was very similar to the relationship that Steve and Joanna had. She was like his work wife. She was head of marketing for the Macintosh, and then she stayed with him for his working life. She was an extraordinary, feisty Eastern European person who was pretty much the only person who could actually knock sense into Steve, and she was also kind of an emotional compass."[67] In developing her sense of the character, Winslet stated that she "just wanted to please [Hoffman] as much as I could. How she sounds, and her accent, is fairly complicated. She grew up largely in Armenia, spent some time in Poland, and has Russians in her family, so she has all three accents, but she’s been in America since she was a teenager, so she had American rhythms. You know, she really has this accent that goes way up and down. It’s almost impossible to copy because of just how singsongy it becomes. So I had to put it into my own register. But we were all doing accents. I mean, Michael’s Irish, and he’s playing Steve Jobs, for God’s sake."[67] Finally, Winslet notes that Hoffman "did genuinely love [Jobs]. And spending time with her, when I was figuring out how to play this difficult fucking terrible part, she would become very emotional. She misses him terribly.”[17]

Andy Cunningham

In a Bloomberg West interview with Emily Chang on August 26, 2015, Andy Cunningham called it "a wonderful film.... It's an incredible character study of a really complex man. Aaron [Sorkin] and Danny Boyle did a fabulous job with it." Her portrayal by Sarah Snook was a "small role but professionally done."[68] The movie also portrays Andy as participating in the iMac launch, even though she was not working with Apple at that time.[69]

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

Main article: Sony Pictures Entertainment hack

Sony was hacked in late November 2014, resulting in screening copies of their films (amongst them Fury and Annie) getting leaked.[70]

In December, emails shared between CEO Amy Pascal and film producer Scott Rudin emerged, detailing the events leading up to Sony putting the Steve Jobs project in turnaround. In them, a dispute occurred surrounding the possibility that Angelina Jolie was luring director David Fincher away to help with a remake of Cleopatra. Also revealed in the emails were the news Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey and Charlize Theron were at one point met with to discuss potential roles in the film.[71]

See also

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