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• A Steve Jobs Film Should Be Saved for the Next Generation

  Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 7:46AM / Standard Entry / Members only
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  How soon is too soon for a movie studio to capitalize on the death of a beloved and celebrated icon? That was the gut-reaction of many comments found on articles reporting that Sony Pictures is entering the process to acquire the rights to make a Steve Jobs biopic.

  The film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s upcoming and highly-anticipated biography of Apple’s celebrated co-founder and de-factor visionary. The book is already an Amazon #1 seller based on pre-sale orders. This fact combined with Sony’s past critical and commercial success with “The Social Network,” a dramatic film about another Silicon Valley prodigy, made it quite logical for any movie studio to pursue the rights for a Steve Jobs film.

  There’s no point in shaking an indignant fist at a movie studio for doing their job; it’s inevitable this biopic would be made. Based on the overwhelming number of mournful messages written by my friends, as well as leaders across the world, I think the movie would be an incredible success at the box office, regardless of quality. The sentiment and image of one of our generation’s most influential inventor will still be fresh on our minds when this movie is released in two years, or however long it takes to produce this movie.

  We certainly won’t watch it in hopes of learning something new about Steve Jobs; his life story and Apple’s has been well-documented, as are anecdotes about his famously peculiar personality. We will watch it, however, to relive the life of someone who profoundly affected our lives.

  And who cares if a movie studio will profit substantially?

  My only gripe is that this biopic would really be of true significant good for the world if it was made for the next generation, whom might not know the hardships Steve Jobs had to endure to create the world’s first true personal computing computer and all the subsequent transformative devices thereafter.

  I truly hope after the Sony Picture’s production there will be another biographical film made 50 years later that can capture the emotions our current generation felt when we lost one of our most inspiring and admirable individual. It’s imperative that our children or grandchildren are introduced to Steve Jobs the way we were introduced to Howard Huges or Oskar Schindler; I want them to feel inspired to make a difference and do good for the world, the way Steve Jobs inspired us.

  Else, the story of Steve Jobs, which has positively affected countless many, might be lost with the passing of time much like the stories of many other great investors, including that of Edwin Land, the man who inspired Steve Jobs, himself.

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