Jeff Sneider for Variety:
The King of Twitter is now the King of Apple, as “Two and a Half Men” star Ashton Kutcher is attached to play Steve Jobs in the indie pic “Jobs,” which Joshua Michael Stern (“Swing Vote”) will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley.
I thought this was an April Fool’s joke when I first read it. Ashton Kutcher is no Noah Wyle.
This is unrelated to Walter Isaacson’s book, by the way. That book has been optioned and is currently in development at Sony Pictures, but no casting has been announced.
Only similarity is the odour: 1 stinks as an actor, Jobs had his BO phase. Bad choice
Ugh. Just… ugh.
It’s like casting Jennifer Lopez to play Marie Curie.
Kutcher has no acting chops. This has failure written all over it.
My pick for an older Jobs would be Matthew Modine (Short Cuts, Full Metal Jacket), a very versatile actor who bears some resemblance to Jobs and can change his voice (an under-rated acting ability.) Noah Wyle is an OK actor, and he did a fine job in “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” But Modine is has much better range as an actor.
My spidey senses tingled when I saw that it was an “independent production”. That means, this may have just been a tease trying to get someone in Hollywood to pay for the movie. So it’s likely it won’t happen, given that Sony has already announced their version.