Steve Jobs (2015) is a biography/drama movie based on the life of Steve Jobs (Chairman, Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.). The movie is directed by Danny Boyle and screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. The movie stars Michael Fassbender (as Steve Jobs), Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels in lead roles.
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9. David Fincher was originally attached to direct Steve Jobs (2015), but was dropped from the film by Sony after his demands – a $10,000,000 salary and full creative control of the project – could not be met by the studio.
David Fincher
8. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was a consultant for the film.
Steve Wozniak and Seth Rogen
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7. The three sequences in the film were filmed on 16mm, 35mm, and digital to illustrate the advancement in Apple’s technology across the 16 years depicted of Steve Jobs’ life.
Steve Jobs, John Sculley and Steve Wozniak
6. Screenplay writer Aaron Sorkin has revealed that the film will consist of three, 30-minute scenes spreading across sixteen years of the life of Steve Jobs. All of the scenes will dramatize backstage events before three major product launches (the Macintosh in 1984, NeXT in 1988, and the iMac in 1998).
Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs
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5. As the film is divided in 3 acts, it was shot in sequence and the actors got to rehearse for 2 weeks for act 1, then shoot for 2 weeks and then come back and rehearse for 2 weeks for act 2. Lead actress Kate Winslet said that by act 3, actor Michael Fassbender didn’t even have his script at the rehearsals, as he had memorized the whole 180 pages script.
Kate Winslet and Michael Fassbender
4. Actor Christian Bale was sought out first for role of Steve Jobs back when David Fincher was originally attached to direct the project.
Christian Bale as Steve Jobs
3. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio was originally set to play the lead role but dropped out to do The Revenant (2015) instead.
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant (2015)
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2. Actress Kate Winslet found out about the movie from her makeup artist while working on The Dressmaker (2015). The makeup artist just got hired for this movie and told Winslet. Winslet said that she was intrigued by a movie written by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender.
Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet
1. Steve Jobs (2015) is the third film based on Steve Jobs’ life after Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) and Jobs (2013).
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