Michael Fassbender is the latest high-profile actor to eyeing the role of Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle’s forthcoming biopic of the late Apple technology guru, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Fassbender is said to be in early negotiations for the part, which has already been turned down by Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio. Seth Rogen remains in discussions to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, with Boyle due in Los Angeles this week to meet potential members of his cast.
Sorkin, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Sony’s The Social Network, will adapt Walter Isaacson’s bestselling Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography. He has previously said he envisages a biopic comprised of just three scenes, shot in real time. Each snapshot of Jobs’s life would take place just before a vital product launch.
Sony intends to move the biopic into production this winter. Boyle is the second celebrated director to be attached to the film after David Fincher withdrew in April following a reported dispute about his proposed $10m (£6.25m) paycheque.
Jobs died on 5 October 2011 of cancer. A rival biopic, titled Jobs, was released in 2013 with Ashton Kutcher as the Apple guru and Josh Gad as Wozniak. It received mostly negative reviews and foundered at the box office.
