For "the bloke who oversaw the iPod generation."
James Cromwell?
After this week's announcement that the late Steve Jobs will be remembered through a Hollywood biopic, the obvious question facing Sony Pictures is… which actor gets the nod for the lead role? The film rights to Walter Isaacson's biography, due to be published later this month, was snapped up by Sony Pictures for a healthy sum …
Well, seeing as this is a Hollywood flick, historical accuracy will be somewhere in the car park (or 'parking lot', as our cousins over the pond would say) so, with this in mind, I think Jackie Chan should play the young Jobs, striving to make a name in a strange land after being stolen from a Triad-controlled Chinese workhouse, and then Ving Rhames to play an older Jobs who takes on the might of Nasty Rival Company (with a despotic, evil, bastard of a boss - played by a Brit, probably) through the use of guile, sex appeal and bloody big guns and explosions.
The plot will write itself, of course.
In that movie, '...six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work'. (IMDB).
So:
Paz de la Huerta is 'gratuitously naked female Steve Jobs';
Jean Reno personifies Steve's stubble;
R2D2 plays Steve in any scenes with Jonathan Ives;
Young Steve is rendered by Pixar;
Ben Kingsley is Spiritaul Steve;
And (for general comedic mirthiness), Steve Ballmer , in Chicago-style-fishnet turtle-neck, tap- dances and sings the introduction of the iPhone, in a big musical number, backed by the cast of Glee.
"Paz de la Huerta is 'gratuitously naked female Steve Jobs';
Jean Reno personifies Steve's stubble;
R2D2 plays Steve in any scenes with Jonathan Ives;
Young Steve is rendered by Pixar;
Ben Kingsley is Spiritaul Steve;"
It's got Oscar written all over it (and it's not a Newton recognition failure either).