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Sony Eyes Steve Jobs Biopic
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Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
feature film.

The project, still in the early stages, would be based
on the upcoming biography, "Steve Jobs" by Walter
Isaacson, set to be released later this month. Fully
authorized, the book is officially described as follows:

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs
conducted over two years‹as well as interviews
with more than a hundred family members, friends,
adversaries, competitors, and colleagues ‹ Walter
Isaacson has written a riveting story of the
roller-coaster life and searingly intense
personality of a creative entrepreneur whose
passion for perfection and ferocious drive
revolutionized six industries: personal computers,
animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing,
and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain
its innovative edge, and when societies around the
world are trying to build digital-age economies,
Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness
and applied imagination. He knew that the best way
to create value in the twenty-first century was to
connect creativity with technology. He built a
company where leaps of the imagination were
combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked
for no control over what was written nor even the
right to read it before it was published. He put
nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he
knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly,
sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked
with and competed against. His friends, foes, and
colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the
passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry,
devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped
his approach to business and the innovative
products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around
him to fury and despair. But his personality and
products were interrelated, just as Apple's
hardware and software tended to be, as if part of
an integrated system. His tale is instructive and
cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation,
character, leadership, and values.

Jobs' life was previously adapted as a 1999 telefilm, Pirates
of Silicon Valley, in turn based on the book "Fire in the
Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer" by Paul
Freiberger and Michael Swaine. That film featured Noah Wyle
in the role of Jobs.

Michelle Steiner

In article <yourname-0810111857530001@203-118-185-83.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:

> Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
> week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
> negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
> feature film.

I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.

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Your Name

In article <michelle-8ACFE5.23085507102011@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <yourname-0810111857530001@203-118-185-83.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
> yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:
> >
> > Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
> > week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
> > negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
> > feature film.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.

Considering the hopless mess Sony made of The Smurfs movie, I *WISH*
Disney (or pretty much anyone else) was doing it. :-(

Todd Allcock

At 07 Oct 2011 23:08:55 -0700 Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article <yourname-0810111857530001@203-118-185-83.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,

> yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:
>
> > Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
> > week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
> > negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
> > feature film.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.


They couldn't figure out what species to make his wise-cracking animal
sidekick...

Wes Groleau

On 10-08-2011 09:53, Todd Allcock wrote:
> At 07 Oct 2011 23:08:55 -0700 Michelle Steiner wrote:
>> In article<yourname-0810111857530001@203-118-185-83.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
>
>> yourname@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:
>>
>>> Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
>>> week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
>>> negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
>>> feature film.
>>
>> I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.
>
> They couldn't figure out what species to make his wise-cracking animal
> sidekick...

A leopard, of course. Then they'd get a look and feel lawsuit from
Attack of the Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTrZlRBXmZw

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Wes Groleau

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Michelle Steiner

In article <j6q3nk$8ha$1@dont-email.me>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> >>> Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
> >>> week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
> >>> negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
> >>> feature film.
> >>
> >> I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.
> >
> > They couldn't figure out what species to make his wise-cracking animal
> > sidekick...
>
> A leopard, of course. Then they'd get a look and feel lawsuit from
> Attack of the Show.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTrZlRBXmZw

Although I'm surprised that Disney isn't getting to do the movie, I think
it's most appropriate for MGM to do it.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ETRYD8CGhw>

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People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

Stuf4

From Michelle Steiner:
> In article <yourname-0810111857530...@203-118-185-83.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz>,
> *yourn...@yourisp.com (Your Name) wrote:
>
> > * * Following the tragic news of his passing earlier this
> > * * week, Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures has begun
> > * * negotiations to turn the life of Steve Jobs into a
> > * * feature film.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that Disney isn't doing it.

It should be a Pixar animation!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls...gj3io1_400.jpg

~ CT