• Actually no, Christian Bale will NOT be playing Steve Jobs after all
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[quote]Sources say the actor came to the conclusion he was not right for the part and decided to withdraw Christian Bale will not be Steve Jobs after all. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the actor has fallen off the Jobs biopic that is being directed by Danny Boyle. The Sony project, which has a script by Aaron Sorkin and is being produced by Scott Rudin, Guymon Casady and Mark Gordon, was on track to begin shooting this winter for a quick turnaround. Boyle is due in town this week to meet with actors and actresses for the movie. Seth Rogen is in discussions to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, but no official offer has been made. It is unclear how Bale’s departure will affect casting. Read more 5 Unforgettable Steve Jobs Moments [B]Sources say Bale, after much deliberation and conflicting feelings, came to the conclusion he was not right for the part and decided to withdraw. The script is said to be divided into three acts that detail Jobs preparing for three presentations that came to define his life and the life of the company he co-founded, lost and came back to.[/B] On Oct. 23, Sorkin told Bloomberg TV that Bale was playing Jobs. "We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale," the writer said at the time. "He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting." Bale marks the second high-profile actor to receive an offer from Sony for the Jobs role but eventually pass. Leonardo DiCaprio also was in line for the late tech icon before moving on to shoot The Revenant. Neither had begun negotiations.[/quote] [Source: [url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/christian-bale-exits-steve-jobs-745784?]THR[/url]]
A bit disappointing given that this could actually be really good.
fuck it give the role to keanu reeves
Christian Bale wouldn't fit the part, he is way to handsome.
Bill Gates should play him.
Pirates of Silicon valley was the best movie about Steve Jobs and bill gates. Honestly, Microsoft's story is more interesting to me than Apple's. When talking about tech biopics, it's important to consider how the main character is portrayed. Steve Jobs has been lionized by Apple fans so it's not possible to outright call him a fucking asshole in mainstream culture. Instead, people like to focus on how he was adopted and try to paint him as having deep feelings of inadequacy throughout his life which pushed him to succeed but at the same time push everyone close to him away. This makes the overall view of Steve Jobs look like a misunderstood genius. However it's important to note that jobs was not an engineer, and it sort of pisses me off that everyone celebrates him as some sort of tech visionary when all he did was take the forces that existed for computer hardware in the 1980s at the time and capitalize on the fact that for some reason nobody else had capitalized on them yet. Overall, Steve Jobs doesn't come out looking like a bad guy. I like the social network the best though. The entire point of the movie has to do with the first scene with Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlfriend, talking to her about how he wants to get into these various clubs because they're exclusive. He belittle his girlfriend for going to Boston University. Throughout the movie, the major theme is Zuckerberg trying to be "on top" of everyone else so to speak; it's about control sort of. When Eduardo cuts off the money to facebook, zuckerberg castrates his involvement in facebook by diluting his shares down to a fraction of a percent to take away control. Meanwhile Sean Parker gets more and more power in facebook because he's instead empowering Zuckerberg. In fact, at one point they're in a club together, and Mark asks Sean if he was ever dumped by a girl in high school. Parker says yes, and then he made like a billion dollars off of napster and forgot about her. Since the origin of facebook had to do with Mark's revenge scheme against his girlfriend (using the Harvard Dormitories' "facebooks" to create "facemash"), being rejected by her is a constant theme in the movie. At one point he sees his ex in a restaurant and tries to talk to her, but she doesn't want to talk to him, so he walks away, defeated. The movie ends with a lawyer telling him that he probably would lose the case, and that he should just settle with the Winklevosses as well as eduardo since they're only asking for a bit of money (not even control over the company) and for eduardo to have his name on the masthead. This sort of hints that it was never about the money for Mark (which he acknowledges when he says "I could buy the [blah blah blah] club right now and turn it into my personal coat room" or something to that effect), but that it was instead about being #1, in power, on top, in control, etc. The movie concludes with him adding his ex girlfriend on facebook, and facebook settling for like, 600 million. Great movie, one of my favorites. So what we've seen here is two people with complex personalities that, though they made them successful, have caused them personal and professional issues. Zuckerberg's story ends up more happy than Jobs' (who was kicked out of the company in the 1990s), as there is some sort of catharsis for Zuckerberg (though the movie is fictionalized, really. There's probably not a lot to go off of with the REAL Mark Zuckerberg). Bill Gates, however? He would come out looking like a total villain. Like a business Shark. He's done some seriously charitable things in his life, but as we can see with the other two, it's never been about money. Bill Gates in the 1980s did some smart business maneuvering, and a few things that would later be indicative of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists]Microsoft's proprietary standards[/url]. But what he did in the 1990s was really a crime against the tech industry that the tech community has really just begun to recover from, and which microsoft has started to make amends for. His monopolistic practices are the sole reason Microsoft is the standard that it is today; in my experience, developers would much rather work on an open, UNIX-based platform. within the last few years, Microsoft has done good work with C# and asp.net, but a psychological profile of Bill gates from the 1970s to the 1990s would be cool to see because it would be like getting into the head of a corporate serial killer. Whereas Steve Jobs was a neurotic who would screw himself in the end, Bill Gates was a total psychopath who would burn any bridge he had to for Microsoft's supremacy as the standard for modern computing. If I could describe Bill Gates as his public persona and business practices in the 1990s (note that bill gates today is way different from how he was in the 1990s), it would be like an autistic shark. So I'd much prefer a story about bill gates. Steve Jobs is fun to romanticized because of iPhones and iPods and stuff like that, but Bill Gates is where the real story is.
Keanu Reeves is the better choice for Steve Jobs imo
Scrap the whole movie. Why the hell do we need another film about Jobs? It's ridiculous. It pisses me off because nobody ever talked Steve Jobs before, but when he died everyone suddenly acted like he was the greatest guy ever, even though he was a prick who stole other people's ideas.
Can you imagine Christian Bale in a turtleneck? Me neither.
get ashton kutcher again but this time make an actually good movie
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;46400492]A bit disappointing given that this could actually be really good.[/QUOTE] Why is everyone disagreeing? This is a guy who fully commits to his work. This is a guy who spoke in American dialect in every day life while filming American Psycho to be in character 24/7. This is a guy who starved himself and when they wanted to stop him, he wanted to keep going for the sake of being in the mind of the character. This is a guy who after starving himself to 120lbs, he bulked up to become Bruce Wayne. We all know how passionate he was during the Terminator Salvation filming process :v: [t]http://stronglifts.com/wp-content/uploads/christian-bale-batman.jpg[/t] He could play Nelson Mandela in the biopic and I'm certain he'd be perfect for it.
[QUOTE=Korova;46401931]Why is everyone disagreeing? [/QUOTE] Because a good actor should star in good films
[QUOTE=Complifused;46401966]Because a good actor should star in good films[/QUOTE] This was being directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, sounds pretty promising to me.
[QUOTE=Korova;46401973]This was being directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, sounds pretty promising to me.[/QUOTE] Maybe you missed the bit where it's a film about Steve Jobs life
Honestly a movie about Steve Jobs would be terribly inaccurate for entertainments sake, in reality (especially in the 80's) He was a unlikable ruthless man, that's how he succeeded, and it didn't have the glamour or excess of the Wolf of Wall street, he was just an asshole plain and simple.
[QUOTE=Korova;46401973]This was being directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, sounds pretty promising to me.[/QUOTE] Social network by Aaron Sorkin was great, but virtually everything else I've seen by Aaron Sorkin is just liberal bait. Like "what if there were a perfect president" or "what if there were a perfect news anchor".
[QUOTE=Complifused;46402010]Maybe you missed the bit where it's a film about Steve Jobs life[/QUOTE] Danny Boyle could film a puddle of piss and make it interesting.
[QUOTE=Whiplash~;46401205] even though he was a prick who stole other people's ideas.[/QUOTE] Jobs was more of a visionary and a businessman, who saw possibilites in other people's ideas and creations, while the people who initially came up with them didn't really believe in them. Thus he either bought their ideas and/or creations from them, or he employed them. Gates might've been an actual engineer, but at the same time he was a backstabber and an egocentrical dickhead. However, as others have already said, he's not at all the person he used to be.
Get Nicolas Cage [t]https://i.imgur.com/UMdBWfp.jpg[/t][t]https://i.imgur.com/y4Hcj9Y.jpg[/t]
I imagine Cage could act out a good Jobs meltdown
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