I like my Apple products, but I’m by no means a zealot worshipping at the altar of Mr. Steve Jobs – brilliant though he may have been. I just know that if I were recently deceased, I wouldn’t want Ashton Kutcher to play me in a biopic. Fucking ever.
But that’s exactly the posthumous nightmare that’s now bestowed upon Job’s legacy according to Variety. Listen, I don’t know how much faith I had in a Steve Jobs biopic to begin with – especially one that reads like a quick cash-in so soon after his death. But Kutcher’s unbearable as a television personality and something even worse as a legitimate film actor. He’s barely qualified to play himself let alone a genius-level software giant, and I can’t think of a single ass that’s ever been put into a theater seat on account of Kutcher alone.
What do you think? Will Kutcher be able to improve upon a role that up to now has been owned by Noah Wyle?
Source: Variety by way of Coming Soon
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Great headline.
Great( if not obvious) headline that has me in stitches…Kutcher is a horrible presence, any hope that this is not a cash in( and instead an attempt at something like the Social Network) is gone
Well, by all accounts Jobs was a douchebag, so only fitting a douche should play him hehe. I’m here all week.
I guess I shouldn’t have ever expected another Pirates of Silicon Valley in a post-Social Network world, but this is just disappointing. A Social style film is totally the wrong treatment for Jobs’ story and after casting Kutcher I can’t imagine any other way of them going about it.
Though what do I know, I’m still waiting for a “rise from the ashes” sequel to Pirates starring Wyle and Hall.
April Fools day prank, maybe?
Pirates is amazing. That moment, when Jobs’ offsider points at Gates then at the 1984 advert playing on the screen overhead, is fucking transcendent.
I would see the shit out of this if Kutcher is channeling Kelso and they just flat out make it a comedy.
How, exactly, is biopic pronounced? Is it “bye-OPP-pick” or “BYE-oh-pick”? Or something else entirely?
I’m shocked that this is actually a thing, unless you’re trying to play a real-deal Jimmy James April Fools joke on us. In which case, well done, but if not– man, who’s fucking bright idea was this?
Who were some of the other actors up for the role? I remember Wyle was mentioned, but there were other, more interesting dudes in the running.
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