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Posted on 10/07/2015 6:13:22 PM PDT by dennisw
A source involved in the making of the film, which hits screens on Friday, told The Hollywood Reporter that MS Jobs Powell had been 'trying to kill this movie' for years.
The source said: 'Laurene Jobs called Leo DiCaprio and said: "Don’t do it." Laurene Jobs called Christian Bale and said: "Don’t."'
She is even alleged to have called potential financial backers when the movie hit issues with funding.
The movie portrays Jobs in a different light to how he is seen by many, depicting him as 'heartless' and showing him disowning his daughter.
Laurene Jobs Powell phoned actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale Steve Jobs' widow lobbied them not to play role of her late husband in film Michael Fassbender got the role but emails revealed in the Sony hack showed he was not everybody's first choice Ms Jobs Powell also allegedly pressured financiers not to fund the movie Lack of money may have contributed to Sony Pictures pulling out, to be replaced by Universal Movie is out in New York and LA Friday and rest of the US later this month
Steve Jobs' widow was so determined to have the new movie about the late Apple boss canned that she contacted Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to persuade them not to take the role.
Laurene Jobs Powell reportedly begged the Hollywood stars to avoid the leading role, with both of the actors believed to have been offered the part.
Eventually Michael Fassbender was cast as Jobs, but that was just the first of a multitude of dramas that saw the controversial biopic come close to never making the screen.
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Given the means, wouldn’t you try to derail a movie that assailed your late spouse?
Druggie atheist.God bless him.In the end the money did him nothing.
He was a brilliant, intense, driven man who accomplished much in his life. That doesn’t make him perfect but he was a perfectionist with all that perfectionism entails, the good and the bad. He was not an ostentatious man, money was not what drove him. Making things that changed the world drove him, and making those things better.
I’m not an Apple, or SJ fan. I would watch this film, but just can’t get past Fassbender as SJ.
I don’t blame a widow from trying to stop a movie that presents her late spouse in a bad light but the truth is the truth — he was a real a__hole a lot of times. He did treat his daughter like crap. He was a brilliant person who did a lot of good with his technology, but he was a first class jerk too. That makes for an interesting movie much more so than some puff piece.
“The movie portrays Jobs in a different light to how he is seen by many, depicting him as ‘heartless’...”
In other words, it portrays him accurately. So far the best potrayal of Jobs on film was done by Noah Wyle in “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, and he didn’t try to sugarcoat the kind of personality everyone in the industry knows Jobs had.
He was not brilliant.He should have never married.Never forgave his father.Died an atheist.I prayed I would not become that famous that they would rip my life apart.May he rest in peace.
” I would watch this film, but just can’t get past Fassbender as SJ.”
Fassbender’s a good actor, and good actors can surprise you. There have been quite a few films where I thought “that guy is totally miscast”, but a few minutes into the performance, I completely forgot my reservations because they were able to slide into the role so well.
One example of that was “Love & Mercy”, the Brian Wilson biopic. I thought Paul Dano and John Cusack were both miscast because they had little resemblance to Brian. However, Dano was so good at mimicking the voice, facial expressions, body language, etc, that he was completely believable. Cusack did alright, but he wasn’t half as good.
Brilliant he clearly was, your feelings about his behavior and life decisions aside. If you want him to rest in peace, let him. His sins are between him and the Lord now.
Here’s What Sony Executives Said About Laurene Powell Jobs and the ‘Steve Jobs’ Movie
Actually I can say what I want Jim Robinson said so.He cared about his family and friends and country.I respect him.Steve took drugs and died an atheist.Other people could have done what he did and he did it badly.
Yes, you certainly can say what you want, but at least you didn’t say “rest in peace” this time while speaking ill of the dead. Much less jarring. Thank you.
Jobs movie ping-a-ling.
What was it that he designed again?
The more I look at Steve Jobs, the more I see a weird twisted man. One of his first money making schemes was to sell "blue boxes" (which he also didn't design or build himself) to steal long distance services from the Telephone company.
He was a "fruitetarian." He ate nothing but fruits and nuts and stuff. Way overloaded his pancreas with all that sugar. That's what killed him. Just another one of his weird ideas about life.
When I see Steve Jobs, I see a man that appears to have gotten a far better deal from life than he deserved, and far more credit for being "brilliant" (as if browbeating others to come up with innovative designs was "brilliant) than he deserves.
I have asked his fans to point out something, anything, that he did which can be regard as both "his" work, and brilliant. They generally come back with a vague "penumbra" of some sort of influence he had on others. Nothing really solid.
Woz, on the other hand, actually designed and built stuff.
He left a Homo in charge.A Homo in charge who only came out because of an opps by MSNBC.Steve’s life speaks for itself.Kinda selfish and boring.It’s called History RegulatorCountry History.He doesn’t need prayers or rest in peace he was an atheist to his last breath.But of course I will pray for him just like I pray for the soul of Christopher Hitchens.
The guy should have at least dyed his hair black for closer resemblance. The actor of the earlier film, whose name escapes me, looked a lot like SJ.
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His widow is the one who is upset with the movie's portrayal of her husband. The people who KNEW Steve Jobs closely and intimately say they portrayal is inaccurate and a distorted caricature built of reports from people who did NOT know him . . . so, who do you believe? The caricature, or the people who worked and lived with him INCLUDING his daughter for the last twenty-five years of his life??? Many of the people portrayed in the film say the scenes in the film never happened. . . it's fiction.
This is what Liberals call "fake" but "true"?
They won't let him rest in peace.
You're being less than honest here. There are a lot of reasons Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius. Here is not one, but several reasons among many.
Calligraphy and fonts. Jobs studied this passionately, and brought it to personal computers. At the time, personal computers were centered on boring monotone text. The world changed because of it.
Blending technology and design. Again, Steve Jobs was instrumental in driving this. A lot of his ideas became actual products that others imitated.
Just in time manufacturing. He didn't invent it, but redefined it at Apple. A big reason why Apple is the biggest tech giant on the planet. When Jobs was brought back to Apple, he turned around a struggling company with his insights and made it successful. A lot had to do with his ideas of streamlining production and inventory control, which has been imitated by many other companies.
Retail store design. Again, it was his idea to make Apple Stores, and how to build them. They bring in more dollars per square foot than most other stores. All because of his insight.
These are just a very few of many, and they are all Steve Jobs. His work, his brilliance.
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