While Jobs got a bit of a mixed reaction when it debuted earlier this year at Sundance, there’s certainly a fair amount of interesting in the movie. Now a new trailer has popped up, so we can get our own feel for the film, which promises it’s about an ‘Official American Legend’.
The film is about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher), following him ‘from the enthusiasm and self-discovery of his youth through his darkest days, brightest triumphs, and the ultimate power of his drive, his passions, and his undying will to change everything we thought possible. Dark, honest, and uncompromising, Jobs plunges into the depths of Steve Jobs’ character, uncovering his driving motivations, his gifts, his flaws, his failures, and his ultimate successes.’
It hits US cinemas on August 16th. No UK date is set yet. [Read more…]
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Ron Eldard, John Getz, Lesley Ann Warren and James Woods have joined Ashton Kutcher in Jobs, the biopic about the iconic Silicon Valley visionary which started shooting a couple of weeks ago. The cast also includes Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, Matthew Modine and Dermot Mulroney.
There were a few raised eyebrows when Ashton Kutcher was cast as Steve Job in a new independent biopic – until pictures of the two of them at the same age were compared, and it suddenly made a lot more sense. However there will probably be fewer people who’ll wonder if Book of Mormon and Love & Other Drugs star Josh Gad will be a good fit for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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