We are pleased to announce that Steve Jobs,
written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Charlie
Wilson’s War) and directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog
Millionaire, 127 Hours), has been selected as the Centerpiece for
the 53rd New York Film Festival. The film will screen for audiences on October
3. Boyle and Sorkin joined forces to create this film about the brilliant man
at the epicenter of the digital revolution, working from Walter Isaacson’s
best-selling biography. Steve Jobs stars Michael Fassbender in the title role, Kate Winslet as
Joanna Hoffman, Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as John Sculley,
Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, and Katherine Waterston as Chrisann
Brennan.
New York Film Festival
Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said: “You hear that a bio of
Steve Jobs is being produced, and of course you see multiple possible movies in
your head . . . but not this one. Steve Jobs is dramatically
concentrated, yet beautifully expansive; it’s extremely sharp; it’s wildly
entertaining, and the actors just soar—you can feel their joy as they bite into
their material.”
“I am honored that our
film has been selected as the Centrepiece of this year’s festival,” said Boyle.
“And thrilled and terrified too, unlike the subject of our film, who would have
taken the whole thing very much in his stride. Steve Jobs was a thoroughly
contradictory and complex character who forged our digital age. He’s the kind
of brilliant, flawed character that Shakespeare would have relished writing
about, and storytellers of all kinds will be
fashioning and re-fashioning the mythology of the digital revolution for
generations to come. I hope that festivalgoers enjoy our take.”
Sorkin and Boyle have created a dynamically
character-driven portrait of the co-founder of Apple, weaving the multiple
threads of their protagonist’s life into three daringly extended backstage
scenes, as Jobs prepares to launch the first Macintosh, the NeXT workstation,
and the iMac. The film is a dazzlingly executed cross-hatched portrait of Jobs,
set against the changing fortunes and circumstances of the home computer
industry and the ascendancy of branding, of products, and of oneself.
Steve Jobs is directed by Danny Boyle and
written by Aaron Sorkin working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography
of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady, Scott
Rudin, Boyle, and Christian Colson.
Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures present—A Scott Rudin/Mark
Gordon Company/Entertainment 360/Decibel Films/Cloud Eight Films production of
a Danny Boyle film: Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs, starring
Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Katherine
Waterston. The music is by Daniel Pemberton, and the costume designer is
Suttirat Larlarb. The film’s editor is Elliot Graham, ACE, and its
production designer is Guy Hendrix Dyas. Steve Jobs’ director of
photography is Alwin Küchler, BSC, and its executive producers are Bernard
Bellew, Bryan Zuriff, Eli Bush. The drama’s producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon
Casady, Scott Rudin, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson, and it is based on the book
by Walter Isaacson. The film’s screenplay is by Aaron Sorkin, and it is
directed by Danny Boyle. ©2015 Universal Studios. www.stevejobsthefilm.com
The 17-day New York Film
Festival highlights the best in world cinema, featuring top films from
celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The selection committee,
chaired by Jones, also includes Dennis Lim, FSLC Director of Programming;
Marian Masone, FSLC Senior Programming Advisor; Gavin Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Film
Comment; and Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor, Film Comment and Sight
& Sound.
NYFF previously announced Robert Zemeckis’s The
Walk as Opening Night, Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead as Closing Night
and Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the
first-ever complete dual retrospective of the experimental filmmakers.
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