Ever since Steve Jobs passed away there has been interest in Hollywood in making a biopic about the founder of Apple. Several projects have been put into development, but now one has pulled ahead of the pack with the news, via Variety, that Ashton Kutcher has been cast in the lead role.
The film will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote) from a script written by Matt Whiteley, following Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple, where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time. It’s not certain how much of Jobs’ life the movie will cover, and whether it will follow through to his illness and Apple’s more recent rise to being one of the biggest companies on the planet.
It’s a more dramatic role than we’re used to from Kutcher, and may allow him to show his got more acting chops than mast suspect. He also looks surprisingly like Jobs in his younger days.
The film will begin to shoot in May, when Kutcher is on his Two and a Half Men hiatus.
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