Universal has decided Sunday evening is the best time to premiere the first trailer for Steve Jobs offering the first look at Michael Fassbender as the founder of Apple. Directed by Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) and written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), the film is set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, taking us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Sorkin’s screenplay was adapted with the aid of Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder and co-stars Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, former
marketing chief of Macintosh; Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple; and Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley. Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) stars as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend and Michael Stuhlbarg (“Boardwalk Empire”) stars as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
Check out the trailer and a new picture below, the film hits theaters on Oct. 9.
