As the August 16 release for the biopic Jobs nears, the likely final trailer has emerged throughout the internet. You can watch the new Jobs trailer below. As you’ll see, there isn’t a whole lot of new footage but there are a few insightful snippets that show Steve Jobs’s (Ashton Kutcher) home life, personal relationships, and erratic behavior at home.
Surely the public, both here and abroad, have a narrow vision of who Steve Jobs really is, basing his entire temperament on the works he’s done for Apple and Pixar, but that’s the way Jobs wanted it. Instead of taking the film towards martyrdom, which given Jobs’s larger than life place in the vast spectrum of technology wouldn’t be too outrageous to consider, the new trailer and hopefully the entire movie depicts how Jobs treated almost all relationships, whether personal or professional, as that of the business sort.
Watch the new and last trailer for Jobs right here before its August 16 release:
The flick is helmed by Joshua Michael Stern, the director of only two films both undistinguished in acclaim and at the box office, so he certainly has a substantial amount to prove for his own directorial chops and for the Jobs loyalists sprawling throughout the entire planet.
The supporting cast is formidable with Josh Gad playing a familiar nerd-esque role as Steve Wozniack, Jobs’s early proverbial partner in crime and Apple co-founder; Dermot Mulroney as Mike Markkula, an angel investor in Apple and its second CEO; and Matthew Modine as John Sculley, Jobs’s mentor-like figure who ousted the co-founder from his own company only to bring him back to save it.
Though early reviews of the movie are so-so at this point, the audience’s captivation with Jobs as an inventor along with his manic temperament are sure to gain the movies reported $8.5 million budget back. Plus, Rotten Tomatoes reviews are often times just plain shit, so I’d recommend seeing the movie on your own accord and forming an opinion only then.
Arguably the best part of the movie is Apple’s complete and utter lack of involvement in the film, a sentiment Steve Jobs would have heralded as he did with Walter Isaacson when writing his biography aptly titled Steve Jobs. Jobs was the kind of guy who wouldn’t want anyone pulling any punches and while the film is likely to be biased towards him, all in all it looks to be a fair portrayal.
