Steve Jobs movie has a new home
LOS ANGELES — It has been less than a week after Sony dropped it, but Universal Studios has picked up the Steve Jobs movie biopic.
LOS ANGELES — It has been less than a week after Sony dropped it, but Universal Studios has picked up the Steve Jobs movie biopic.
Producers recently set Michael Fassbender to star as the late Apple mogul after Christian Bale dropped out. Seth Rogen is also in talks to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Based on Walter Isaacson’s biography Steve Jobs, the real-life drama is directed by Oscar-winner Danny Boyle and adapted by Aaron Sorkin. Scott Rudin is producing the movie alongside Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady.
Sony decided to abandon the tech drama last Wednesday. The studio, which acquired rights to Isaacson’s book shortly after the mogul’s death in 2011, has not explained why it pulled out. Sorkin has publicly said the movie would be divided into three long scenes, each before one of Apple’s noted product launches, and that Jobs’ daughter Lisa would be the heroine of the film.
Sorkin, Sony and Rudin last worked together on Moneyball (2011) after teaming on another technology drama — 2010’s The Social Network about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. That movie grossed more than US$220 million (S$287 million) worldwide. REUTERS