First trailer for Danny Boyle's Oscar-tipped Steve Jobs biopic arrives
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Version 0 of 1. The debut trailer for Danny Boyle’s long-gestating biopic of Steve Jobs has hit the web, powering up our first glimpse of Michael Fassbender as the late Apple tech guru. The German-Irish actor is seen in full briefly at the end of the trailer, receiving applause from the crowd at a product launch – expected to be the 1998 unveiling of the first iMac. Other than that, we only see him in profile from behind as audio from the film plays out. “You can’t write code. You are not an engineer. What do you do?,” asks Seth Rogen’s Steve Wozniak, incredulously. Replies Jobs: “The musicians play the instruments. I play the orchestra … I sat in a garage and invented the future … Because artists lead and hacks ask for a show of hands.” There’s a hint that Boyle and Sorkin won’t hold back from presenting Jobs’ darker side. One female character with a German accent tells him: “I love that you don’t care how much money a person makes; you care what they make. But what you make isn’t supposed to be the best part of you.” Boyle’s film has a troublesome pre-production back story. It was set up at studio Sony with David Fincher directing Leonardo DiCaprio, then Christian Bale, in the lead. But the final version sees Boyle directing, Fassbender cast as Jobs and studio Universal providing financial backing. Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Sony’s The Social Network, has previously said he envisages a biopic comprised of just three scenes, each shot in real time and taking place just before a vital product launch. The trailer also gives us our first glimpse of Jeff Daniels as early Apple CEO John Sculley and Kate Winslet as Apple marketing chief Joanna Hoffman, who once won a tongue-in-cheek prize from her employer for being the member of staff most willing to stand up to Jobs. An earlier biopic of the Apple co-founder, titled Jobs, was released in 2013 with Ashton Kutcher in the title role and Josh Gad as Wozniak. It was not a hit with the critics and bombed at the box office. Steve Jobs is due for release on 9 October in the US, four days after the fourth anniversary of Jobs’ death of cancer, timing which suggests a tilt at the 2016 Oscars. The biopic is due to hit UK cinemas on 13 November. |