Steve Jobs trailer: Michael Fassbender plays legendary Apple founder in Danny Boyle’s new film

Get your first look at the Irish actor as the man behind the iMac
Mac man: Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle's new film (Image: Universal Pictures)
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Ben Travis19 May 2015

The first trailer for Danny Boyle’s film about the legendary found of Apple, Steve Jobs, has arrived, giving our first look at the film’s key players.

Donning the famous black turtleneck and circular glasses as Jobs himself is Michael Fassbender, who may not be much of a physical likeness, but has a track record of excellent performances as everything from a damaged sex addict, to a terrifying slave owner, to a young Magneto in the X-Men films.

We also see a beardy Seth Rogen playing the other famous Steve from Apple, Steve ‘Woz’ Wozniak, Kate Winslet in bottle-bottom glasses as Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman, and Jeff Daniels as John Sculley, who was CEO of Apple between 1983 and 1993 and often clashed with Jobs.

The film, simply titled Steve Jobs, comes from a script by lauded writer Aaron Sorkin, who created The West Wing and wrote the screenplay for The Social Network. His script is said to focus on three key events in Apple’s history, and the first trailer seems to show the launch of one of Apple’s signature Apple Mac products.

Steve Jobs the film, 2015 - in pictures

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Production of the film took a while to get going, with various troubles behind the scenes revealed in the leaked Sony emails. Though David Fincher, director of The Social Network, was initially attached, the film is directed by British director Danny Boyle of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later fame.

The countdown to the Oscars begins now.

Steve Jobs arrives in UK cinemas on November 13

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