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Steve Jobs Movie, Starring Michael Fassbender, Is 2015 NY Film Festival Centerpiece Selection
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Published Jul 27, 2015
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Aaron Sorkin's biopic about Apple innovator Steve Jobs is getting the festival treatment this fall. The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Michael Fassbender, will be screened on October 3 as the Centerpiece selection of the 53rd New York Film Festival.
Sorkin, who won an Oscar for adapted screenplay with The Social Network, used Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs for his screenplay, and New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, "You hear that a bio of Steve Jobs is being produced, and of course you see multiple possible movies in your head ... but not this one. Steve Jobs is dramatically concentrated, yet beautifully expansive; it’s extremely sharp; it’s wildly entertaining, and the actors just soar—you can feel their joy as they bite into their material."
Other actors in the film include Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, and Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan. Fun NYFF factoid: Waterston had a pivotal role in last year's NYFF Centerpiece film, Paul Thomas Anderson's criminally underrated Inherent Vice.
Danny Boyle said he was honored that the film was selected—"and thrilled and terrified too, unlike the subject of our film, who would have taken the whole thing very much in his stride. Steve Jobs was a thoroughly contradictory and complex character who forged our digital age. He’s the kind of brilliant, flawed character that Shakespeare would have relished writing about, and storytellers of all kinds will be fashioning and re-fashioning the mythology of the digital revolution for generations to come. I hope that festivalgoers enjoy our take."
The film covers the product launches of the first Macintosh, NeXT and the iMac.
The New York Film Festival begins on September 25th and runs through October 11th. The opening night film is The Walk, about Philippe Petit's walk across the Twin towers, and Don Cheadle's biopic about Miles Davis will close the festival.
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