The first trailer of the incoming Steve Jobs' biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is here. It looks pretty good, albeit a bit overdramatic at times and perhaps not completely accurate. Like his partner-in-crime Steve Wozniak told me after watching the first scene
Not close...we never had such interaction and roles...I'm not even sure what it's getting at...personalities are very wrong although mine is closer... it's totally wrong. Personalities and where the ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club. Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact. His idea was to make a $20 PC board and sell it for $40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs (this was the 5th time).
The lofty talk came much further down the line.
I never looked like a professional. We were both kids. Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed but if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book iWoz can get a clearer picture.
The trailer seems to hit all the key events in Jobs' authorized and unauthorized biographies—like Walter Isaacson's appaling Steve Jobs or Michael Moritz's excellent Return to the Little Kingdom. There is plenty of the legendary personal stuff—his year at Reed College, his first serious love affair and his LSD experiences—and all of the business drama—the rise of Apple, John Sculley's treason, Jobs' exile to NeXT and Pixar, and his triumphant return to Cupertino more than a decade later.
Of course, any trailer can make any movie look great, but at least we now know that his one has some nice-ish moments. The Apple fan legion will probably be happy as they wait for the allegedly better Jobs' biopic,
Oh, and one more thing: they changed that stupid jOBS title to just Jobs.