In October, the film Steve Jobs will open to a wide audience, and those behind the film hopes it keeps the glowing reviews it’s already adopted through film festivals to date.
Aaron Sorkin is the screenwriter for the upcoming film, which is based on the biography of Jobs from Walter Isaacson, and he recently held an interview with the Hollywood Reporter in which he not only calls out Tim Cook, Apple’s current CEO, but also throws in a dig about the company’s manufacturing practices, too.
Recently, Tim Cook sat down with Stephen Colbert on CBS’s Late Show, and talked about several different things. One of those topics included movies based, in some way or another, on Steve Jobs. That includes titles like Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, as well as Sorkin’s film mentioned above. Cook called those films “opportunistic,” and went on to say that Jobs was an “amazing human being.”
Sorkin didn’t take kindly to being called opportunistic, though, and gave Cook some scathing feedback:
“Nobody did this movie to get rich,” he said. “Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is.”“Third, if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
If the early reviews are any indication, Steve Jobs, which is directed by Danny Boyle and stars Michael Fassbender, is certainly worthwhile and worth seeing. Of course, it remains to be seen how the public will accept the film when it releases in October.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
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