Steve Jobs would have been 'appalled' by Danny Boyle's film, says Pixar president Edwin Catmull
'They actually can't tell the story because the story's wrong'
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While talking about Danny Boyle’s recent Steve Jobs ‘biopic’, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios president Edwin Catmull said how the late CEO would be “appalled” by the film.
When asked what Jobs would have thought being the subject of this movie by The Hollywood Reporter, he said: “I think he'd be appalled. And they actually can't tell the story because the story's wrong.
“He went through an arc in his life. There was a time the way he worked with people was not good, and I saw that when I first worked with him.”
He went on to explain that it was only once Jobs left Apple that he went through the “classic hero’s journey”, describing how his work with both NeXT and Pixar changed him and how he soon became an “empathetic person”.
“Nobody's going to psychoanalyse Steve while he was alive,” Catmull added. “That aspect of the change of Steve was missed. That's the real story.”
Boyle’s Steve Jobs film was a critical success yet failed at the box office, with Universal removing it from over 2,000 cinemas after just two weeks.
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