April 2, 2012

Steve Jobs to be played by Ashton Kutcher

The AP reports:
Kutcher's publicist confirmed Tuesday that the independent film "Jobs" will begin production in May while he's on hiatus from the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men."

As I said in my VDARE review of Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography, because Kutcher (That 70s Show) looks the most like Steve Jobs of any actor, hopefully that will impel filmmakers to treat Jobs' life more as comedy than as mawkish tragedy.

12 comments:

ricpic said...

You'd think they could find a more complex type to play Jobs, or at least an actor able to give a layered performance, rather than simple shallow Ashton.

Ed said...

Will the disease that he finally died from be used as an angle? Otherwise, I don't see his life as biopic material. He was an exceptional entrepreneur whose companies turned out some very good products, probably most comparable to some of the early tycoons in car manufacturing. We are not dealing with William Randoph Hearst.

Kiwiguy said...

Noah Wylie gave a good performance as Jobs in Fire in the Valley. Anthony Michael Hall was even better as Bill Gates.

Anonymous said...

A young William Hurt--like in ALTERED STATES--would have made a perfect Jobs.

Glaivester said...

Kiwiguy - that's Pirates of Silicon VAlley. I don't see Fire in Silicon Valley as an alternate IMDB title.

Mr. Anon said...

Hey, they could get Demi Moore to play Joan Baez.

NOTA said...

So, it was surely tragic that he died of cancer at 56. On the other hand, is the rest of his life story really tragic? Seems to me if you're going to get 56 years, there are a hell of a lot worse ways to spend them than Jobs did!

anony-mouse said...

Always liked Kutcher's tweet when he got the role on Two and Half Men:

(Sqrt symbol) 6.25

Ray Sawhill said...

Kutcher was really good as a Game-influenced player-wannabe in the 2009 flick "Spread." The movie was pretty daring in many ways, and also features an amazingly hot Anne Heche.

Drawbacks said...

Steve Wozniak has endorsed Kutcher's casting, possibly for some kind of postmortem revenge. Curtis Armstrong would be perfect as Woz, if only he weren't the same age as Woz.

stari_momak said...

Way to rub salt in Demi's wounds, Hollywood.

Dr Cattle said...

The Social Network script was inspired by Pirates of Silicon Valley.