Is that Steve Jobs taking a stroll?
TMZ is reporting that
Ashton Kutcher has donned the official Steve Jobs outfit of turtlenecks, jeans and sneakers as the actor prepares to play the late Apple co-founder in a new independent movie. The low budget flick is said to be titled
Jobs: Get Involved and focuses on his early career from the founding of Apple through the Pixar and NeXT years. A leak revealed that
Kutcher had been awarded the role on April 2nd, with filming set to begin this month now that Two and a Half Men is on hiatus for the summer.
Sony Pictures,
which acquired the rights to Walter Isaacson's biography about Jobs, is said to
also be interested in producing a movie about the executive. Sony is trying to get Aaron Sorkin, the man who created
The West Wing and was a screenwriter for
The Social Network to pen the script. As for the role of Steve Jobs in the Sony movie, the last we heard was that
the role could be given to one of two ER alumni, George Clooney or Noah Wyle. Wyle has the advantage of having portrayed Jobs before in the made for T.V. "
Pirates of Silicon Valley".
source:
TMZ via
electronista
Ashton Kutcher (L) will play Steve Jobs in a low price indie flick about the early career of the late Apple executive
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