Six weeks after we saw our first teaser trailer for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic, Universal has released the first full-length trailer for the movie, showing Michael Fassbender as Apple’s co-founder and former CEO. And boy is it dramatic!
Check it out below.
Directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting), written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network), and based on the gajillion-selling Walter Isaacson biography, the movie hits U.S. theaters October 9.
It consists of three acts, taking place backstage during iconic Jobs keynotes, although flashbacks will be used to recount stories from Jobs’ past. What to we make of it so far? Aside from the fact that Fassbender still doesn’t look a whole lot like Steve Jobs, the trailer is certainly… dramatic.
Given that Hollywood has a tendency to edit virtually every movie trailer like it’s a summer blockbuster, it’s hard to read too much into it — although lines like, “If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it’ll have been well worth it for those who survive” do make me a bit apprehensive.
Given that Sorkin is one of my favorite screenwriters, hopefully that fear is misplaced — but from the look of things, there’s likely to be no shortage of dramatic beats here.
What do you think? Leave comments below.
Via: The Verge
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
16 responses to “Steve Jobs gets dramatic in first full-length trailer”
What a fucking hit job… Pun intended.
Where is the part about Steve building the gas chambers at Auschwitz?
Looks like a super dramatic Pirates of Silicon Valley
I’m gonna pass on this one. I like Sorkin and Fassbender, however… Fassbender doesn’t evoke Jobs at all and the line about how Jobs “stole” the ui, complete and utter bullshit. This is not going to reflect reality in the least. Sad.
Even if you argue that Jobs took the UI from Xerox PARC (Xerox’s version was very different to the ones Apple shipped with the Lisa and Mac), he certainly didn’t “steal” it since the whole thing was a licensed agreement.
Like I said. “Inspired” by PARC, licensed, sure. But even that completely downplays how original the Mac ui was at the time. Genius. And by the most reliable accounts of the people who were there, mostly thanks to Jobs. The bit in the movie is stupid and insulting.
Makes one wonder if the screenwriters weren’t Steve Ballmer and Eric Schmidt, given that line..
He looks nothing like Steve Jobs. He sounds nothing like Steve Jobs. The writing is cheesy. It’s almost as if they’re trying to make the first Steve Jobs movie look good. Yikes.
It’s difficult to gauge too much from a trailer like this, but I really hope this movie is better than it looks here. I have faith in Sorkin, but after countless biographies, documentaries, magazine articles and blog posts, do we really need a third movie about Steve Jobs?
Yes, if only to erase the memory of that garbage Kutcher put out. Noah Wyle should’ve been asked to do the job, so to speak.
Who is Kate Winslet portraying? She is shadowing him throughout like some sort of alter ego and then changes into a different character with a German accent. This going to be uber whack.
Jobs was one of the most reprehensible human beings. L. Ron Hubbard, anyone?
Tom, is that you??
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Yuck, that sucked…
For the love of God…
Yikes. I love the cast and I mostly love Sorkin’s work, but Danny Boyle is always hyperbolic in his direction and this trailer comes off less as a portrait of an event or person than as an excuse to take pot shots. Let’s see how it goes. I have faith in Fassbender and Winslet but even they can’t save a mess.
Also as much as I adore Fassbender as an actor he doesn’t remind me at all of Jobs, save maybe slightly in his later years with the gray hair.