As a (seven months late) New Year's resolution, this year I decided I while watching their resulting movies. Call it a "52 Week Film School,” maybe — except, you know, not, since I'm starting this in July.
But whatever. Semantics schmantics.
Anyway, all hail the Script-O-Palooza!
The single most overwhelming thought that dominated my mind while reading this was: "Damn. This is a good script."
And it's true. Damn. This is a good script. I think you can automatically peg it as the frontrunner for Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards for this year — and while I'm still having trouble getting used to Michael "Decidedly Doesn't Look Like Steve Jobs" Fassenbender playing Steve Jobs, if Danny Boyle has even an ounce of magic left in him, I suspect the movie itself will also be a smashing success. It may not end up creating as much of a splash as The Social Network did, as it arguably lacks the social immediacy and resonance of that film, but there's very little doubt in my mind that Steve Jobs represents another career pinnacle for Sorkin. It's a breathtaking, funny, poignant whirlwind of an experience that truly gets to the core emotional heart of what it means to change the world in the way that Steve Jobs did.
<<WORK IN PROGRESS: I've run out of steam with this thought, but rest assured I'll revisit it once I read the script again.>>
A super-fun, crazy, and utterly manic screenplay to read. I really love Lindelof, Kurtzman and Orci’s style….
I absolutely, positively, most definitely in every way completely love this script. Justin Marks took a sprawling, episodic (if enchanting) animated film, derived from a century-old set of stories, and turned it all into a wonderful screenplay that utterly embraces its child protagonist in a brave new way. When you look at the other choices he, Favreau and Disney could’ve made — boy, you just gotta step back and say, "Remarkable job."