Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, tried to block the new Steve Jobs movie written by Aaron Sorkin, according to a new report. Powell Jobs is one of a number of Jobs’ “allies” who believe the film paints him as a cruel person.
“Ms. Jobs repeatedly tried to kill the film, according to people familiar with the conversations,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
“She lobbied, among others, Sony Pictures Entertainment, which developed the script but passed on the movie for financial reasons, and Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, which is releasing the $33.5 million production on Friday.”
The Steve Jobs movie, which is directed by Danny Boyle and stars Michael Fassbender, is based on Walter Isaacson’s controversial Steve Jobs biography. Powell Jobs, along with many of Jobs’ friends and colleagues, believe the book does not paint an accurate picture of the real Jobs.
Powell Jobs feels the book plays down Jobs’ accomplishments with Apple, and paints him as a cruel person.
Bill Campbell, a friend of Jobs and longtime Apple board member, said that “a whole generation is going to think of him in a different what if they see a movie that depicts him in a negative way.”
Powell Jobs has been given the opportunity to contribute to the movie’s development, but “she refused to discuss anything in Aaron’s script that bothered her despite my repeated entreaties,” said producer Scott Rudin.
Instead, Powell Jobs “continued to say how much she disliked the book, and that any movie based on the book could not possibly be accurate.”
Eddy Cue, who walked out of a screening of Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine and called it an “inaccurate and mean-spirited view of my friend,” has also echoed Powell Jobs’ concerns about the movie.
Despite this, Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple with Jobs in 1976, has praised Sorkin’s new movie, and Fassbender’s depiction of Jobs, saying “I felt like I was actually watching Steve Jobs… I give full credit to Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin for getting it so right.”
Wozniak also told WSJ that the movie “is about Jobs and his personality. I feel that it did a great job.”
You’ll be able to see the movie for yourself this Friday, when it makes its theatrical debut.
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