Hollywood rumor alert, guys: English gossip coal plant The Sun reports George Clooney is slugging it out with former guy-who-played-Steve-Jobs Noah Wyle over the coveted spot. It will definitely be an extremely lucrative movie—so who's gonna star?
the one hand, Noah Wyle has experience pretending to be Steve from the sorta-bad-sorta-good Pirates of Silicon Valley. He also does genuinely look like Jobs. Which is important.
the one hand, Noah Wyle has experience pretending to be Steve from the sorta-bad-sorta-good Pirates of Silicon Valley. He also does genuinely look like Jobs. Which is important.Then again, George Clooney is actually a really good actor. But does he look like Steve Jobs? Eh. His face is too puffy, his skin too swarthy. A lot can be done with makeup, but I think the bone structure just might not be there. And I've spent a lot of time analyzing George Clooney's face.
Both of them, however, are getting a little up there to be playing Jobs when he was a scrappy garage engineer—Clooney is 50 and Wyle is 40. Jobs founded Apple when he was 21. So, even if Clooney or Wyle land the spot, the picture will need a second actor to play young Jobs, lest we run the excruciatingly embarrassing risk of George Clooney playing a college kid. So then what? I propose CGI. [The Sun via 9to5Mac]
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