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Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney will premier his latest project, a feature entitled "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine" that chronicles the late Apple CEO's influence on the modern world's relationship with computers, at the annual South by Southwest film festival next month.
Produced in partnership with CNN Films, the 120-minute documentary promises to be a "provocative and sometimes startling re-evaluation of the legacy of an icon." The film's exact screening date is yet to be determined, and its inclusion was first noted by Variety.
Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side, an examination of U.S. government policy toward torture, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His work on Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room garnered a nomination for the same award in 2005, while another Gibney production — Â the HBO film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God — Â won three Emmy Awards and a Peabody.
Jobs has become perhaps a more polarizing figure in death than he was while alive, with a number of attempts to document his life and career underway.
Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Jobs is being turned into a major motion picture, penned by West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin and helmed by Trainspotting's Danny Boyle. Michael Fassbender is playing Jobs alongside Seth Rogen's Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet as former Mac marketing head Joanna Hoffman, and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Principal filming for that project began last week, and interest remains high despite several setbacks. Hundreds of hopefuls turned up for a casting call at Cupertino's De Anza College earlier this week.
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With CNN involved, they'll probably claim that a solar flare gave Jobs cancer, and that Woz's plane crash was due to a black hole. MH370 will figure into the story somehow.
I'll take a documentary any day over Hollyweird's casting of Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak.
Right, so, Steve and Steve were stoned out of their minds in the woods, right?
And then all of a sudden WHOOM, here comes the plane through the other end of the wormhole!
And it crashes, right, because it 1. isn’t even the same make of plane and 2. just went through a wormhole.
But the Steves go on over to the smoldering wreckage and find everything burnt up. Everything. Except one thing…
IT’S AN IPOD OR WHATEVER I DON’T KNOW SOME SORT OF APPLE PRODUCT.
So they come down from the drugs, you know, and they realize it’s not a hallucination. They don’t know what it is, but they do know it’s…
And so the Steves embark on a quest to reverse engineer it and make all sorts of money on the idea.
Woz is skeptical.
But he eventually relents and they start a company to get the capital to figure out how it works and how to make more.
Something something, character interest, something something, Steve pretends Lisa isn’t his…
Something something, they eventually hire Sculley, something something, Steve gets fired.
And then Scully says, “NO, STEVE, YOU ARE THE FUCKING FUCKING FU?K!” And then the Steves were manga characters.
THE END.
^^^ Did you create this? I want to buy this in the form of an e-comic...NOW!
Uh-oh... Sounds like a hypocritical hipster piece that explains how Steve Jobs betrayed his own values, maaan! And how he was worse than Hitler, since he forced people to use iPods and proprietary software, instead of sticking it to the fascist machine by using open source, free as in free, crap as in crappy software. There'll probably also be a segment on how Jobs personally ensured, that everyone under 16 in Foxconn's Apple production lines had to work 60 hours a week. And that he not only forced Apple's HR department to exclusively hire white, heterosexual males, but also personally gave every minority job applicant a kick in the scrotum. After lecturing them on the superiority of the white race, and telling them they didn't get the job. I can't wait!