In 35 years, there wasn’t a movie so anticipated at the Sundance Film Festival as the Steve Jobs biopic. Fans, movie critics, directors and well, basically, the entire Hollywood world are all waiting for “jOBS”. The biopic was directed by Joshua Michael Stern and will premiere on the festival’s last night, which is next Saturday.
From 4,000 films submitted, only the most interesting and best 119 feature films from 32 countries were chosen. And while the schedule features enough interesting headlines, it is jOBS that has everybody thrilled. “The true story of one of the greatest entrepreneurs in American history...a candid, inspiring and personal portrait of the one who saw things differently” reads the biopic description starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs during his “30 most defining years”.
The movie is also a huge bet for Ashton Kutcher’s acting career, but Josh Gad, co-star in jOBS says Kutcher lived up to the challenge. “There’s something extraordinarily about the material in that it’s unlike anything you’ve seen Ashton Kutcher do before. I think he’s going to astound a lot of people” the actor told Wenn. “There is an eerie resemblance – he didn’t have to do much to get there” Gad said about Ashton Kutcher preparing for his part.
“When he showed up, it sent a ripple of shock throughout the set. Everyone was like, ‘We’re in the presence of Jobs. Let’s go do this’. It was literally like being in the room with the creator of Apple. This is one of those roles that’s the perfect fit” the actor added.
Running January 17 through January 27, Sundance Film Festival features a plethora of movies, such as Lovelace, story of porn star Linda “Deep Throat”, as well as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut as a movie director, “Don Jon’s Addiction”. In a nutshell, as Trevor Groth, director of programming for Sundance said, this year’s movies “offer compelling portraits of worlds and people ranging from the beloved to the misunderstood to the unknown” and also “have the power to delight audiences at the festival and impact our culture at large”.
