The Parts permanently
upcoming Steve Jobs biopic has been hotly anticipated since it was first
reported nearly three years ago. We're still waiting. And according to newly
leaked emails out of Sony Pictures, trying to get it off the ground was a total
clusterfuck: name-calling, Angelina Jolie-trashing, lying, and begging.
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This was supposed to be the good Steve Jobs movie—the one
without Ashton Kutcher's dumb face and dumb talking.
Hollywood trade outlets recently reported that Sony Pictures
had lost Jobs, the much-hyped Aaron Sorkin adaptation of Walter Isaacson's
plodding biography of the Apple tyrant, to rival studio Universal. No longer
would we get the Social Network reunion between Sorkin and Fincher, nor would
we see Jobs dead-ringer Christian Bale take on the role. How could a movie with
so much going for it be derailed so, so far?
Reading through the leaked emails to and from Sony Pictures
co-chairman Amy Pascal, it becomes clear—Apple HQ, this place ain't.
February: Pascal vs. Elit Medya
Emails between Pascal and widely hated Jobs producer Scott
Rudin show gallons of bad blood, starting this past February. The dust-up seems
to have been over Angelina Jolie, who objected to David Fincher directing Jobs
instead of her version of Cleopatra, penned by screenwriter Eric Roth (you'll
see him mentioned as "Eric" below..
Sony's Steve Jobs Disaster
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Emre KOZAN
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
The Parts permanently upcoming Steve Jobs biopic has been hotly anticipated since it was first reported nearly three years ago. We...