Thursday, July 2, 2015

Will Fassbender Make A Good Steve Jobs?



Because the Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle has picked him for the iBio-based movie which comes out on October 9. Mr. Fassbender might be a good actor but he doesn't look like the Californian hi-tech swami. At all. When I was watching the trailer I thought Boyle might as well have picked Arnold Schwarzenegger. Which was one of the choices on gizmodo.

I would personally have picked Noah Wyle -- he did a pretty good job playing Steve before -- or Keanu Reeves. An edgy actor like Bale would have been good too but he backed down. Daniel Day-Lewis would have been a great choice.

9 comments:

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Given that SJ never got that thin, Bale would indeed have made a great pick.

akagugo said...

Ah, now you're talking...

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Was watching part of Get on up yesterday. Thought Chadwick Boseman did a pretty good job laying James Brown. It's such a pleasure to watch when the actor gets many idiosyncrasies right.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

The movie premiered at a film festival yesterday and Boyle observed that his flick is not a representational bio but rather a lens in SJ's mind.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

This is what the second Boyle trailer looks like. Given that the story stops in 1998 we should expect at least a couple of sequels.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

The movie is currently playing on Canal+. Not bad. But not sure all the events in there are real. Like Sculley meeting him so many times after SJ was sacked by Apple.

akagugo said...

This rating is fair - for the fans of the bitten apple only, as some verbal duelling tends to be tedious at times...
For those after other historic events having sunk the financial system, may I recommend The Big Short, Too Big to Fail, or 99 Homes?

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Watched part of The Big Short. Was looking at Bale and wondering how he would play Jobs. Oh, apparently there's also Bourdain in there. Need to watch it more closely.

Sanjay Jagatsingh said...

Look who else thought Bale would have been a great choice. And why he didn't do it.