A couple of months on from the first Steve Jobs trailer, Universal have just uploaded a second for Mac users worldwide. And we guess you can watch it on a PC too. Danny Boyle is the director, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, and Michael Fassbender is Jobs, juggling his life as a tech visionary with that of a family man: not always successfully it seems.
There's slightly less of the supporting cast in trailer 2, and a more specific focus on Jobs himself. But there are still glimpses of Seth Rogen’s Steve Wozniak, Kate Winslet's marketing chief Joanna Hoffman, and Katherine Waterston's Chrisann Brennan, who confronts Jobs over his negligent parenting of daughter Lisa (Perla Haney-Jardine). Jeff Daniels is Apple executive John Sculley, who frequently clashed with Jobs.
Based on Walter Isaacson’s biography, the film focuses on three big moments in Jobs' corporate life: the launch of the Mac; NeXT (which was introduced after he was removed from the company); and the iPod, the game-changing player he spearheaded after his triumphant return.
Apple's current CEO Tim Cook has dismissed **Steve Jobs (and its predecessor, Alex Gibney's documentary The Man In The Machine) as "opprtunistic" and "unflattering" recently. You can see if you agree when the film opens in the UK on November 13. If you're in London, you might catch it earlier when it plays the LFF on October 18.
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