Jony Ive’s touching tribute to Steve Jobs

Kate Winslet nails a key role, as perhaps the only person who has the ear of the mercurial executive and the only one who can get Jobs to be halfway decent. The direction from Boyle is spot on.

Actor Ashton Kutcher, who does look more like Jobs, played him in a 2013 film that was a modest box office success.

This movie starts with the 1984 introduction of the MacInstosh and how the co-founder of Apple, Jobs (Michael Fassbender), wanted to make the presentation the biggest in the world.

Really, though, with this cast and those guys in charge, Steve Jobs is like the 1992 Olympic Men’s basketball team with Michael Jordan – the Dream Team.

“When you believe in something you sometimes have to continue that believe despite the forces that might be reigned against you”, Boyle said.

“He was like, “I’m not interested in that, I just want to get the energy and essence of the man and go with that”.

“A whole generation is going to think of him in a different way if they see a movie that depicts him in a negative way”, says Bill Campbell, a friend of Jobs and an Apple board member. “Four years ago, I was faced with a wall of grief”, he recalled, saying his memories have changed in unexpected ways in the intervening years.

Speaking to The Playlist whilst promoting his new film, the Steve Jobs biopic starring Michael Fassbender, Boyle has revealed he may well take on directorial duties on the second 28 Days Later sequel, 28 Months Later.

Sorkin’s script focuses on Jobs’ relationships with Lisa and Chrisann.

As for Fassbender, he was initially skeptical about portraying Jobs. Jobs is mostly remembered for his dynamic personality, which he often put on display at Apple events when it rolled out new iPhones and other gadgets.

He told The Hollywood Reporter that he later apologised to the German-Irish actor for doubting his ability to play the part.

The new film paints a very unflattering portrait of the now deceased Apple genius, one that the CEO’s widow tried to have quashed. He then joked about how upsetting Apple – a company well known for its pro-privacy stance – could result in his files being hacked.