I am not an Ashton Kutcher fan but he looks like he’s going to dominate as Apple founder and Information Age wunderkind Steve Jobs. Available on YouTube today is a new featurette for Jobs, the Steve Jobs biopic starring Kutcher in the titular role and it looks even better than the preceding trailers and Instagram videos (though the movie’s poster is probably the hands down best promotional tool).
From top to bottom, just about every aspect of this film and its production have me drawn to it like a moth to the flame. Kutcher not only bears a striking resemblance to the late Jobs but from the trailers alone looks to have captured nearly all of the idiosyncrasies, laser-focused attentiveness, and emotional disillusionment that in tandem made one of the great businessmen and innovators of our lifetime.
Check out the Jobs featurette for a behind the scenes look at the movie due out August 16:
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.
Jobs is due to hit the silver screen on August 16 but in the meantime, check out the featurette and past trailers and let us know how you think the movie looks and will fare at the box office.
