Kevin BosticThe theatrical trailer for the Steve Jobs biopic, "Jobs," has been released, giving viewers a closer look at Ashton Kutcher in the title role, as well as a better sense of the span of the film.
The trailer is the longest look viewers have gotten to date at Kutcher as Jobs in the controversial film. The biopic, originally set to open in theaters this past April, is now slated for release on August 16.
"Jobs" is one of two pictures based on the life of the Apple co-founder. The other, to be penned by "The Social Network" scribe Aaron Sorkin, Sorkin describes his film as "a play in three scenes" in real-time backstage footage at different Apple product launches.
"Jobs," on the other hand, spans much of the life of the late Apple icon. The theatrical trailer shows the movie going from at least the development of the personal computer on through the debut of the iPod, with a bearded Kutcher as Jobs visible for a fraction of a second.
The Kutcher film, which also stars Josh Gad in the role of Steve Wozniak, has come under some criticism since it was announced. Kutcher initially said he believed the role of Jobs was meant for him, and called the script "award worthy." When early footage emerged, though, it was panned by Steve Wozniak, who said that the portrayal of Jobs was "so far from anything that really happened" that the Apple co-founder would have been "offended and embarrassed."
Kutcher and Gad appeared at this year's Macworld conference to discuss the film and perhaps do damage control in the wake of Wozniak's comments. The film, they said, was done with the "utmost love, admiration, and respect."
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Cha-Ching. Cashing in on Steve. Kutcher may have taken the job to honor him, but based on few early scenes shown already, Woz has said it didn't get the history right. He was on CNN talking about the movie.
I'm waiting for the David Fincher directed, Aaron Sorkin written, Scott Rudin produced movie. Three scenes from a life rather than a whole life compressed into 90 mins.
As much as I hate Kutcher, I have to admit this looks like an exciting fun movie.
It could easily be better than the Sorkin one, which based on his previous work is likely to be a snooze-fest.
… Woz has said it didn't get the history right ...
Woz famously has pretty much no idea about people, personalities, relationships, etc. so what he remembers isn't likely to be what actually happened in any case.
The other people present at the time would be better sources of "fact."
Kutcher seems to have nailed a lot of jobs mannerisms, etc here. His voice isn't right, but I can't imagine there's much he can do about that.
The guy playing woz doesn't seem quite right either.
It's hard to portray real people that so many people have seen, in a movie.
I don't care if there's license taken with reality-- after all, a lot of what happened happened behind closed doors and other than interviewing Woz extensively, there's no way to recreate those conversations.... and Woz is a great guy but he's got a seemingly inconsistent memory.
Just so long as it isn't one of those ignorant Apple hatefests that things like "Pirates of Silicon Valley" and the like.
Sorkin's Facebook movie wasn't exactly flattering, and the Jobs Biography was written by an asshole who couldn't be objective (and not in a favorable way to jobs--- for instance he quotes jobs saying something, then says jobs was wrong and quotes bill gates saying something that was completely factually untrue... at that point, I about threw the book across the room.)
I doubt Sorkin has the integrity to rise above the material he's been given.
Of course, I'll be seeing both movies opening night. That goes without saying.