I love it when a daft idea turns into something good: with two Steve Jobs biopics in production, I wondered what sort of films other directors would make about the late Mr Jobs. After some spirited discussions we came up with a shortlist – Michael Bay, David Fincher, John Lasseter, the Coen Brothers and Norah Ephron – and I got to have some fun with the pitches. The result is Steve Jobs: The Movie, in the new issue of MacFormat. I love the illustrations, although it’s a shame my ending for Steve-E has been tweaked a bit: inevitably, that was the bit of the article I liked the best.
That’s today’s top writing tip: don’t get too precious about your work, because the bits you like best are always cut first.
George Lucas is surely the obvious choice to make it, release it to cinema, then twat about with it a bit and re-release it, twat about a bit more and re-re-release it… then add in some whizzy bits that didn’t make it to the first 3 iterations.
ie. Selling the same product over and over again to the salivating fanbois. It worked for Star Wars… it can work for “iJobs the movie”
Or perhaps Peter Jackson could make a 10 hour epic… based around “One appstore to rule them, one appstore to find them and in the darkness bind them [to a near inescapable ecosystem]” (30% of all seat prices to Apple naturally)