Tim Cook Calls ‘Steve Jobs’ Opportunistic, Aaron Sorkin Fires Back
“If you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic,” Aaron Sorkin said in response to Tim Cook’s latest critique against the upcoming movie Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO recently called the filmmakers “opportunistic.”
On a recent episode The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Cook openly expressed his opinions about the upcoming Steve Jobs movie — directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin — and the Alex Gibney documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which unearths controversies revolving Steve Jobs when he was Apple CEO. He expressed his sentiments working with and around Steve Jobs and claimed films about Steve Jobs were not able to capture that side of him.
“The Steve I knew was an amazing human being. He’s someone that you wanted to do your best work for. He had this uncanny ability to see around the corner and describe the future – not an evolutionary future but a revolutionary future.”
Tim Cook admits that he hasn’t seen either Boyle and Sorkin’s Steve Jobs movie or Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, but he believes that filmmakers are only making movies about Steve Jobs to gain some kind of audience or monetary incentive.
“He was a joy to work with and I love him dearly, I miss him every day. I think that a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic and I hate that, it’s not a great part of our world.”
But Tim Cook’s comment on the Steve Jobs movie did not escape the ears of Aaron Sorkin, who became upset after hearing Cook’s “opportunistic” critique. In response, Sorkin told theHollywood Reporter during a press junket roundtable for the upcoming Steve Jobs 2015 movie that the project isn’t a money-making scheme. In fact, Sorkin and the people at the top of the Steve Jobs movie had to resort to taking pay cuts to get the film out.
“Nobody did this movie to get rich. Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is.”
But Sorkin saved the most stinging rebuttal for last.
“Third, if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
Aaron Sorkin was an Oscar-winner for his screenplay for The Social Network, a movie about the creators of Facebook. A lot of people are already looking forward to his latest exploit, the Steve Jobs movie, coming out on October 9, 2015. which is based on the official biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson and will cast Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs.
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