It’s been some time since the documentary focused on Steve Jobs, The Man in the Machine, saw any attention, but soon CNN will be giving it its own premiere.
As part of CNN Films, the news organization will be airing the documentary, which was directed by Alex Gibney, on Sunday, January 3 at 9:00 PM ET. As CNN puts it, the documentary will unravel “the larger-than-life myth behind Steve Jobs.” This particular documentary has seen its fair share of attention from some of Apple’s executives that knew Steve Jobs before his demise, and none of it has been positive. Eddy Cue, for example, was very disappointed in the film back in March of this year:For its part, Gibney’s documentary does take archival footage, along with new interviews, to put together an image of Steve Jobs over the many years he found himself in the technology industry. It will be interesting to see the dialogue that crops up after CNN premiere’s the film, which is described as:
“The captivating film leverages a mix of the new interviews with archival footage, intimate photos and relatively rare video of Jobs speaking during media interviews – and previously unseen video from a legal deposition as Jobs attempted to explain his role in the Apple stock option backdating scandal. The story moves from Jobs’ heady rise from Silicon Valley whiz kid to CEO, to his ouster from Apple and triumphant return, the Foxconn and stock option controversies, and the worldwide outpouring of grief upon his untimely death in 2011. A man who was both revered as an iconoclastic genius and feared by some as a barbed-tongued tyrant, the film also attempts to explain the carefully constructed mythology of Jobs, perhaps the most publicly-admired corporate figure of the technology age.”
Following the release of Steve Jobs earlier this year, which was directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, many individuals who knew the former Apple CEO raised their voices at the portrayal, saying it wasn’t accurate. As Cue has already made mention this year, it would appear this documentary doesn’t live up to the expectations of an accurate view on Jobs, either.
Do you plan on checking this documentary out?
[via CNN]
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