A news shocker for anyone excited about the other Steve Jobs movie—which should be good, because it’s written by Oscar-winning dynamo Aaron Sorkin, doesn’t star Ashton Kutcher, and isn’t called iJobs. The movie will only have three scenes. Three.
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According to The Daily Beast, Sorkin says his upcoming Jobs biopic—which doesn’t have an actor attached to the role, yet—will consist entirely of three half-hour scenes that take place in real-time, each depicting the events leading up to a major product launch during Jobs’ life. 9to5Mac says these will be the original Mac, NeXT, and iPod launches, which sound like brilliant choices to us. The movie will conclude with a single line, says Sorkin: “Here’s to the crazy ones.”
It’s a daring, even strange way to make a movie, and is sure to alienate a lot of ADD-ravaged Americans who can’t stomach watching only three scenes for the entire duration of a movie. It’ll be like a play! But the story of Steve Jobs’ life is just as much a story of things, and to tie a biopic around the launch of these things—the man was the consummate launcher, after all—is wonderfully clever. Let’s not forget that Sorkin managed to make a movie about Facebook wholly fascinating. So let’s give him the benefit of the doubt here. [The Daily Beast]
