Which actor should play Steve in upcoming biopic? After this week's announcement that the late Steve Jobs will be remembered through a Hollywood biopic, the obvious question facing Sony Pictures is… which actor gets the nod for the lead role? The film rights to Walter Isaacson's biography, due to be published later this month, was snapped up by Sony Pictures for a healthy sum …
Well, seeing as this is a Hollywood flick, historical accuracy will be somewhere in the car park (or 'parking lot', as our cousins over the pond would say) so, with this in mind, I think Jackie Chan should play the young Jobs, striving to make a name in a strange land after being stolen from a Triad-controlled Chinese workhouse, and then Ving Rhames to play an older Jobs who takes on the might of Nasty Rival Company (with a despotic, evil, bastard of a boss - played by a Brit, probably) through the use of guile, sex appeal and bloody big guns and explosions.
The plot will write itself, of course.
In that movie, '...six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work'. (IMDB).
So:
Paz de la Huerta is 'gratuitously naked female Steve Jobs';
Jean Reno personifies Steve's stubble;
R2D2 plays Steve in any scenes with Jonathan Ives;
Young Steve is rendered by Pixar;
Ben Kingsley is Spiritaul Steve;
And (for general comedic mirthiness), Steve Ballmer , in Chicago-style-fishnet turtle-neck, tap- dances and sings the introduction of the iPhone, in a big musical number, backed by the cast of Glee.
"Paz de la Huerta is 'gratuitously naked female Steve Jobs';
Jean Reno personifies Steve's stubble;
R2D2 plays Steve in any scenes with Jonathan Ives;
Young Steve is rendered by Pixar;
Ben Kingsley is Spiritaul Steve;"
It's got Oscar written all over it (and it's not a Newton recognition failure either).
Woody Allen? Only if Steve shot a moose once. He put tied it to the hood of the car, and was driving home.
[Great, now I need to listen to that old Moose bit again.]
And there's law in New York about driving through the Holland Tunnel with a live moose strapped to your car on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and alternate Saturdays ...
Jobs was a major control freak who dressed in black all the time, took centre stage at huge rallies of rabidly fanatic followers who practically deified him, tried to conquer the world (and failed), and died aged 56. Last time they needed someone to play someone with those characteristics, Bruno Ganz knocked it out of the park.
(NB: all similarities are cosmetic. Jobs didn't improve the world by dying, for starters.)
Jobs playing Jobs *might* not be too difficult.
Not sure about the dialogue.
Although using motion capture Polar Express style (and the new Tin tin movie) tends to give a much creepier effect. A sense of not-quite-rightness which has a certain appeal.
It could be "The Social Network" of 2011.
Although I suspect it will be more like Transformers 3.
Anyone remember the Bruce Lee film, shot after/during when he died?
A villain came in to the dressing room and gave a karate kick.
Actor almost fell from behind the cardboard cutout.
Comical, if hewasn't one of my faveourite performers in the 70's.
Personally I think Noah Wyle should do the job. In an interview I read, Noah said that he was even told by Steve Jobs himself that he thought he was good in the Pirates of Silicon Valley (although I gather Steve didn't like the script from what I read in the interview). I also understand that Noah went on Stage as Steve in an Apple keynote (although I haven't seen the video of it yet due to Youtube being blocked at work).
Heck, get all the original actors in from Pirates of Silicon Valley to do the job. :-)
(Oh and if they want an 'old Steve' looking actor, I've read on TechEye that there is an actor who was in some Chinese adverts who looks pretty similar to Steve Jobs).
Rob
The answer is simple: Have Pixar make a digital Steve and do his part entirely in CGI.
No need for "actors" at all. Also, there must be enough archival soundbitey bits from the Madman Across the Water around to glean the entire dialog for this dog of a film without paying Seth Rogen to voice it.
+1 for Justin Long as hippie Steve
Noah Wyle as older Steve, because no one has ever seen Pirates of Silicon Valley. So much better than the Social Network. Heck, just pick up where that movie left off and call it Part 2!
Also wouldn't mind Christian Bale, or Jonathon Pryce with some anti-wrinkle cream.
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