Entertainment Weekly's blog Inside Movies has posted a new clip of the Steve Jobs biopic "jOBS" today, along with a Q&A with Josh Gad, the actor playing Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Click here for the exclusive clip, where you get a taste of how Jobs and Wozniak will be portrayed in the film. Judging by the scene, it looks like the Steve Jobs character (played by Ashton Kutcher) will be quite the insatiable visionary. The scene has Jobs convincing the skeptical Wozniak that the graphical display of real-time processes (the "operating system") that Wozniak has been tinkering with as a hobby could be a huge advance in making computers useful to regular people and artists.
Wozniak finally says, "Your overreacting... nobody wants to buy a computer! Nobody!" Jobs' reply is very much within the Steve Jobs mythos: "How does somebody know what they want if they've never even seen it?"
The biopic, also starring Dermot Mulroney and Matthew Modine, is going to be released in theaters on April 19, which is the 37th anniversary of the founding of Apple Computer. Filmmakers have said that jOBS will be "an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs' life." It will sweep through nearly 30 years Steve Jobs' life, focusing on big milestones, like the creation of the first Apple Computer in a garage in Palo Alto, California (apparently they were given unprecedented access to that location to shoot.)
Another big milestone covered by jOBS is Steve Jobs' life-changing acid trip, the filming of which the Daily Mail was able to acquire photos. Here's one for your enjoyment.
The film premieres tomorrow at the Sundance Film Festival, so we'll hear some first reactions soon.