Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs Biopic Cast Announced

Danny Boyle is directing the film from a script by Aaron Sorkin (based on the Walter Isaacson biography Steve Jobs), and it will feature Michael Fassbender as Jobs, Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet as former Macintosh marketing chief Joanna Hoffman, Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley, Katherine Waterston as Jobs’ ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld.

Rounding out the cast is Sarah Snook as Macintosh project leader Andrea Cunningham, Adam Shapiro as Apple Computer Senior VP of Software Engineering Avie Tevanian, and Perla Haney-Jardine, Ripley Sobo, and Mackenzie Moss will play Jobs’ daughter Lisa Brennan at various stages of her life.

Universal has also released an official logline for STEVE JOBS:

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, the film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter,

STEVE JOBS doesn’t have a release date yet, but if everything goes well, Universal could release it late 2015, just in time for awards season.

Source:  JOBLO / Collider

Natalie Portman Joins Steve Jobs Biopic

After switching studios from Sony to Universal and leading men from Christian Bale to Michael Fassbender, the Steve Jobs biopic continues full speed ahead as Deadline reports that Oscar-winner Natalie Portman has boarded the film.

LisaJobsWhile the article makes no claims as to who the actress is playing, it would be hard to imagine it is anyone other than the Apple head honcho’s daughter, Lisa Bennan-Jobs (see pic on right of Lisa to cast away all doubt). Steve Jobs initially denied his paternity of Lisa, all the while naming one of Apple’s earliest computers–the Apple Lisa–after her. The two reconnected years later and Jobs paid for her to attend Harvard University, coincidentally around the same time that Portman called that school her alma matter.

Portman recently completed her feature directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness and starring in the western Jane Got a Gun. She is also expected to reprise her role as Jane Foster in 2017′s Thor: Ragnarok.

Based on Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography “Steve Jobs,” Universal’s currently untitled Jobs movie will be written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, while Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady produce.

Universal Pictures Picks Up Steve Jobs Biopic

About a week ago, Sony Pictures suddenly dropped development of the Steve Jobs biopic, a project that didn’t stick with director David Fincher or star Christian Bale (twice). But at the time the project was dropped, Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle and acclaimed actor Michael Fassbender were attached to the project.

Thankfully, THR reports the two talents are still with the project which has now officially been picked up by Universal Pictures for about $30 million.

Not bad for an Aaron Sorkin scripted drama about one of the most well-known innovators of our time. Stay tuned to for any updates.