Steve Jobs may be dead but our fascination with him is alive and well — and something of an industry. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's 2011 authorized biography of the Apple founder, spent weeks atop bestseller lists. And another Jobs wave is upon us.
Becoming Steve Jobs, bio #2, is due out later this month. Among other revelations, says The San Jose Mercury News, is the story of a very ill Steve Jobs rejecting outright his friend and eventual successor Tim Cook's offer to donate part of his liver for transplant purposes.
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Then there's documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney's Man in the Machine, which just debuted at SXSW. Gibney's film, the Daily Beast tells us, is a "blistering takedown" of Jobs and the cult of Apple and, some will say, a long overdue corrective to the Jobs-as-God myth. "The Jobs depicted here is Mephistopheles in a black mock turtleneck," writes Beast entertainment editor Marlow Stern; "an endlessly alluring megalomaniac who terrorizes the people closest to him and games the system to pad his—and his company’s— bottom line."
Finally, a feature film based on Isaacson's book is in the works, from director Danny Boyle and writer Aaron Sorkin. Actor Michael Fassbinder is said to be considering the role of Jobs, which, according to The Guardian, has already been turned down by Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio.
