Walter Isaacson: Apple purchase Beats for enhancing the TV

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Much has been said about the possible purchase of Beats Electronics from Apple, which should be confirmed along this week: that if they do it for the music subscription service, that if the talent and skills of Jimmy Iovine..., but the author of the official biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson thinks it's something else: television.

"It's not a biopic, it's not the story of Steve Jobs," Aaron Sorkin about the film based on the official biography of Jobs

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The writer of "The Social Network" (with which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay) briefly talked about his next project, the big-screen adaptation of the official biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.

Sorkin has described his new script as "one of the few times I've finished writing what I set out to write" revealing that both lights and shadows personality co-founded Apple in a very different way to reflect on it how it has been treated so far.

"It's not a biopic, it's not the story of Steve Jobs is very different from that he is a fascinating guy, part hero, part anti-hero."

Regarding the recent rumors of The Hollywood Reporter that put Danny Boyle, director of Slumdog Millionaire, taking charge of the project now that David Fincher has turned away from negotiations, Sorkin has evaded the issue by saying:

"I do not want to reveal much tonight. Do not want to give any notice or to make someone feel that I approached the film in a different way. I'm going to make the film speak for itself. But he is surrounded fascinating kind of fascinating people , and had interesting relationships with the people in your life." 

Along with rumors of directing Boyle has also left the name of Leonardo DiCaprio as a possible actor for the role of Jobs. In any case, Aaron Sorkin has already given the final script to Sony, a script that seems to consist of three scenes of about 30 minutes around three major Apple product launches are built. 

Some amazing and strange anecdotes about my God, Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs, above all, was a person like any other, with their eccentricities and foibles. Just today I have some of the most curious and surprising anecdotes about the life of the charismatic former CEO of Apple.

Although many facts about the history of Steve Jobs, many great feats and an almost mythical image, the fact is that first of all, Steve Jobs was a human, eccentric, witty but ordinary being. Here are some anecdotes that speak a little of the background of this genius that both influenced the world of technology.

Steve Jobs and money

Oddly enough, Jobs was not always a rich guy. Quite the contrary. In her meager beginnings Steve Jobs passed hard times of hardship. The strange thing about it is that, in many cases seemed to give the same. For example, one of Steve Jobs anecdotes told by his ex-girlfriend and mother of Lisa:

According Chrisaan for Rolling Stone explained, at a time when they had no money either and after a genuine act of waste according to the situation (go to movies and dining out), returning to the car they found a fine of 25 dollars for parking. This led to a time of discussion in which Steve Jobs, after a long time patient, getting angry and ended with a cool calm, threw coins and notes they had left to the sea. As if to say that the money was not worth much discussion. But despite desperately need it.

LISA 

Talking about Lisa, many will wonder who she is. Lisa is the result of the relationship between Chrisaan Brennan and Steve Jobs. Name also put the first computer that was creating by Jobs, confirming later: "it clear that we named my daughter" we talking about Lisa, the company's computer. Then the marketing team did their job to sell the acronym, though, developers have sometimes used these initials as a joke, before the mystery as the acronym Let's Invent Some Acronym.

Why are you working?

Another Steve Jobs anecdotes counts as one day, Heidi Roizen, CEO of T / Market and distributes software for Apple long ago received a call from Jobs to discuss negotiations. By starting the conversation, Roizen told him that his father had died while she was traveling in Paris. "What are you doing working?" Jobs replied immediately, "Go home, go your way." When he spoke to her, his attention was delicate and extreme, she says Roizen, probably because his own mother had died a few months ago.

The problem with hygiene 

Not everything that surrounds Steve Jobs was socially correct. Like all eccentrics and geniuses of the world, had some rather quirky ways. Among them are some hygiene problem. Among other things, Steve Jobs enjoyed mainly fish, rejecting any other meat. By eliminating other meats, Jobs thought his body was free of unpleasant odors, so you do not need or showering too frequently or wear deodorant.

So says Walter Isaacson, his authorized biographer who has this and other anecdotes about Steve Jobs. Another anecdotal account of Steve Jobs when he was working as Atari, he was moved to the night shift because of their lack of bodily cleanliness or strange habit of walking around the office barefoot. It also has a biography of Jobs' favorite activities to de-stress during the early years of the company was to wash his feet in the toilet of Apple.

Steve Jobs Monk

Although it is a well known fact, Steve Jobs practiced Buddhism in a very applied way. It was so fond of this philosophy that there was a time when his aspiration was to become a Buddhist monk. One of the anecdotes of Steve Jobs has as after a trip to India, with one of his best friends from Reed College, came back with a shaved head. Very different from the young long-haired Steve Jobs we all remember, and having embraced Buddhism.

David Fincher se retira de las conversaciones para dirigir el biopic de Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

Citando fuentes cercanas al asunto, The Hollywood Reporter , dijo el lunes que Fincher se retiró de las conversaciones después de que su solicitud de 10 millones de dólares en compensación por adelantado y el control total sobre la comercialización supuestamente fueron rechazados. Los informes de febrero afirmaban que Fincher estaba en conversaciones con jefes del estudio Sony Pictures para producir la película basada en la biografía oficial por Walter Isaacson.

"No está haciendo Transformers ni Capitán América. Esto es calidad sin necesidad de desparramar nada comercial. Debería ser recompensado una vez el film tenga éxito, pero no antes".

En marzo, se llegó a afirmar que el director quería a Chrisitian Bale -protagonista en  "Batman: el caballero ocuro"- interpretaría el papel de Jobs .


El trabajo de Fincher incluye una serie de películas aclamadas por la crítica , incluyendo "Se7en ", "Fight Club ", y " La red social ".

El director puede volver a la mesa de negociaciones en una fecha posterior, pero no queda claro cómo Sony responderá si continúa impulsando pagos por adelantado exorbitantes.