Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs Movie Begins Shooting
The movie about the career and life of the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, has officially begun filming in San Francisco as Universal Studios announce the beginning of production.
Under the title of Steve Jobs, this project has been through some ups and downs. With big name directors attached and A-list Hollywood stars dropping out, its surprising they've reached this point.
Danny Boyle will direct an Aaron Sorkin script which will star Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past, 12 Years a Slave) playing the titular role of Steve Jobs and Seth Rogen (The Interview, Superbad) playing Steve Wozniak. Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston, and Michael Stuhlbarg also star.
The film will centre around three major announcement events in Jobs’ life: for the original Mac, for the NEXT cube computer, and for the Apple iMac. Flashbacks will be incorporated as well, including one shot at Jobs’ real home in Los Altos, California.
Universal also announced 'Steve Jobs' will be released 9th October 2015.
Universal Studios released the below press release;
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA, January 27, 2015—Universal Pictures today announced that principal photography has commenced in San Francisco on Steve Jobs. Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, HBO’s The Newsroom), working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan, Source Code), Guymon Casady (HBO’s Game of Thrones, Hope Springs) of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson (Slumdog Millionaire, Selma).
Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past, 12 Years a Slave) will play Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet (The Reader, Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind) starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen (Neighbors, The Interview), and Jeff Daniels (HBO’s The Newsroom, Good Night, and Good Luck.) stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice, Being Flynn) as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire) as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
Other members of the cast include Perla Haney-Jardine (Future Weather), Ripley Sobo (Winter’s Tale) and Makenzie Moss (upcoming Do You Believe?) as young Lisa Brennan at various stages of her life, Sarah Snook (Predestination) as Andrea Cunningham, as well as Adam Shapiro (A Single Man) as Avie Tevanian.
