Kutcher to play Jobs

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Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in "Jobs," an indie film that starts shooting next month. From CNN:

The timing of the story, which was published Sunday on Variety's website, combined with Kutcher's well-known love of pranks, led some to dismiss it as an April Fools' joke. But CNN confirmed Monday through a representative for Kutcher that the actor has signed on for the role.
Jeff Sneider, the reporter who wrote the Variety article, said on Twitter on Sunday that the movie will follow Jobs from when he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976 to when Jobs returned to the company in the late 1990s after being forced out. It won't cover Jobs' later years, he said.

"Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs in movie"

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shannigans

I believe this is what you’d call a stretch assignment.
EH

I’m a bigger fan of Bradley Cooper for the role.
relawson

As much as I don’t really give any shits about Ashton, or Steve, i’m genuinely interested to see if he can pull it off.
trackofalljades

The clarification about the years the film aims to cover gives me a lot more hope for how well it could possibly turn out.
- Marktech
  
  The clarification about the years the film aims to cover gives me a lot more hope for how well it could possibly turn out.
  
  Yeah, but I was secretly hoping to see Bruce Willis as Steve Ballmer.
  - trackofalljades
    
    Why would cutting the movie off shortly after Jobs returning to Apple eliminate the possibility of Ballmer as a character? Ballmer was with Allen and Gates from the earliest days of Microsoft, and Microsoft was involved with Apple from the earliest days of BASIC.
    - Marktech
      
      Why would cutting the movie off shortly after Jobs returning to Apple eliminate the possibility of Ballmer as a character?
      
      A character, I know, but a Bruce Willis character?
      - http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
        
        Man has to be able to throw a chair. But that happened after 2k.
      - Guest
        
        I see what you did there. +2
  - xian
    
    I’m thinking he’s more a Kyle Gass from Tenacious D type character, or possibly Larry the cable guy.
  - Editz
    
    I nominate Brian Baumgartner for the role of Ballmer.
  - Bobsyeruncle
    
    I nominate Dick Cheney for the role of The Embalmer. He can get a stunt double for heavy work like throwing chairs or hard jumping like a big, sweaty monkey. :D
Brad H.

I think I’d rather watch Pirates Of Silicon Valley again. In fact, finish the new movie off with the 1999 Macworld Expo so that Noah Wyle can impersonate Kutcher as Steve Jobs.

But isn’t there a parallel Jobs movie in the pipeline?
- trackofalljades
  
  Knowing how Hollywood works, there is probably a parallel movie about Steve Jobs and Snow White, in which they have a conversation making fun of parallel monkey movies, flood movies, and meteor movies.
- koko szanel
  
  Came here to post the same thing :).
  We dont need another Pirates Of Silicon Valley remake.
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  Yup, there’s going to be one based on the official biography; I’m not entirely sure what this one’s based on… fiction?
  - Marktech
    
    Yup, there’s going to be one based on the official biography
    
    Optioned, but much less likely thanks to this, as Robert Cringely explains.
fenrox

They are both self obsessed!
- John Fleming
  
  One of them isn’t any more.
http://my.strathspey.org/openid/anselm/ Anselm Lingnau

Never mind Kutcher and Jobs. Who’s going to play the Woz?
- EH
  
  Could be Giamatti.
  - http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
    
    Way too old now.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      I guess that rules out Brian Blessed.
    - EH
      
      How about Luke Wilson + 50lbs?
- http://www.facebook.com/blazeldude Marc Blazel
  
  Jennifer Aniston.
  - gerardwhelan
    
    Adam Sandler playing Jennifer Aniston (playing the Woz)
- Editz
  
  Keanu?
  
  http://imgur.com/X8vtt
  - http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith
    
    Still ten years older than Kutcher, and Kutcher has to play Jobs as he was in his early 20s.
    - Editz
      
      I think 1975 Woz could be handled by David Walliams doing Lou from Little Britain.
      
      http://imgur.com/kFiM0
- Guest
  
  Zach Galawhateverthefuckhisnameis
citykids

Excellent choice, Kutcher’s ass-hole method is perfect for playing Jobs.
http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

He’s actually a surprisingly good likeness.
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenahoo Ken Williams
  
  There’s one rather big difference – Steve’s gaze is penetrating & intense. Ashton’s is vacant. Bone structure & nose shape & all that stuff are a pretty good match, but without the gaze, the “it factor” is just kind of gone.
  - Martijn Vos
    
    Good point. Kutchner does look quite a bit like the young Jobs, but the vacant look versus the intense gaze is rather a vital difference.
    
    But even if he masters that intense look, it’s still going to be an enormous challenge. He may have the looks, the assholish attitude, and they’re both pranksters, but that just makes it too easy for him to play himself. He lacks the gravitas. Not sure if that’s something you can act or learn.
- http://twitter.com/manooshi Manel
  
  I was thinking the same thing.
gtrjnky

I look forward to a one dimensional performance.
franko

i was backing noah wylie. he has the experience, and he looks much more like steve than kutcher.
mlvanlancker

Likeness aside, Kutcher cannot act, like, at all.

I’d rather it be a good movie than Ashton Kutcher shrugging and yelling in a silly voice.
hypersomniac

When is David Pescovitz going to jump out from around the corner yelling that we all got “PUNK’d ™”?
Tim Pozar

Does anyone remember that Apple was established on April 1st 1976?
http://twitter.com/mkelley mike k

Great a man who died from cancer, played by a cancer upon mankind
kphisch

I’d say Michael Showalter would be a far better, cheaper option. By both looks and general awesomeness. He could sound right too.
pjcamp

Well that works. He can really dig into that whole asshole thing.
http://profiles.google.com/mrjohnmrjohn John Barber

Tom Cruise as Steve Ballmer, dress him up in his Tropic Thunder persona and voila!
Vincent

Sounds like a remake of Pirates of silicon valley. I though indie movies where supposed to be creative works that mainstream Hollywood studios where afraid to back. Remaking old movies with currently hot actors to profit off the death of an Icon and new-found success of a once struggling company seems to fit very well with big studies typical profit focused ideologies.