Filming on a movie about the life of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher begins Monday in the Los Altos garage that gave birth to Apple, according to a member of the production crew.
The movie, titled "jOBS," is a rival to the Sony Pictures film that has tapped Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as an adviser and hired Aaron Sorkin of "The Social Network" to write the script based on Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs."
As the crew of "jOBS" descends on the Apple co-founder's old neighborhood Monday morning, thousands will gather in San Francisco for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Instead of the deceased Jobs leading the proceedings, though, CEO Tim Cook will chart the company's course.
According to a news release, executive producer Mark Hulme and Five Star Feature Films launched the movie project immediately following Jobs' retirement in August 2011. "A rousing narrative of this business and tech icon, 'jOBS' pulls no punches and does not speculate, telling only the candid and captivating account of the life of Steven Paul Jobs," it said.
The film focuses on Jobs' life between 1971 and 2000 and, according to the producers, is based "on months of exhaustive research and interviews with Steve Jobs' friends, colleagues and mentors to develop the most truthful and gripping picture of Jobs' life."
In an interview, Wozniak said he has not spoken to anyone associated with "jOBS."
"I am not involved with
them," Woz said. "I hope they get things very accurate as far as personalities, characters and what incidents had meaning. I hope they don't over-dramatize it. The real events that happened were interesting."He has no problem watching an actor portray him as a shy engineer, Wozniak said. He liked "Pirates of Silicon Valley," a 1999 made-for-television film directed by Martyn Burke that dramatized the birth of the personal computer, rivalry between Apple and Microsoft and Jobs' sometimes erratic and harsh leadership.
"They got the personalities right," he said. "I was a good engineer and I cared about people."
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