Bloomberg Business:
In the clip released Wednesday, Wozniak, who is played by Seth Rogen, confronts Jobs and accuses his partner of hogging the credit for their creations, and those of others. That never happened, he said.
“I don’t talk that way,” Wozniak said in an e-mailed response to questions. “I would never accuse the graphical interface of being stolen. I never made comments to the effect that I had credit (genius) taken from me.”
And:
Wozniak said he consulted with Sorkin, who won an Oscar for “The Social Network,” before the Jobs script was written, met the cast briefly and had dinner with Rogen, though he never asked to see the script.
“I do not think that would be appropriate,” Wozniak said, adding he was honored to be portrayed by a popular actor like Rogen. “It is the creative work of the producer and writer and actors and director and others.”
I am a huge Sorkin fan and (Gasp!) a bit of an Apple fan. I can’t wait to see this movie.
I like Sorkin, Boyle and Fassbinder. The only thing that bugs me about this movie is that it is based on Isaacson’s bio, which seems to be a poor product given the unusual access he had.
I am a HUGE fan of Sorkin and Apple, but this trailer makes this movie look horrible. I have absolutely no desire to see this film after watching the preview.
Those scenes all appear to be portraying the caricatures instead of characters.
Fictionalized relationships notwithstanding, it’s difficult to assess this trailer without thinking of all the names in it as beloved characters from a favorite fictional franchise, and without thinking of this movie as a reboot of that franchise.
That line from the trailer’s Woz struck me as something Woz fanboys would say rather than Woz himself. Good to hear it from Woz’s own mouth. There is enough excitement and controversy in the Jobs story without dropping in entirely fictional bits like this. We may end up in a situation where the Ashton Kutcher Jobs movie is a better portrayal than this one. Wouldn’t that be rich? 🙂
“I would never accuse the graphical interface of being stolen…”
Nobody, but nobody, talks like Woz.