Aaron Sorkin has some biting words for Apple CEO Tim Cook as he criticized the latest Steve Jobs biopic that he penned. Cook called the movie “opportunistic” in an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I think that a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic, and I hate this; it’s not a great part of our world. The Steve I knew was an amazing human being,” Cook said.
Sorkin wasn’t going to take that lying down. He told The Hollywood Reporter, "Nobody did this movie to get rich." He said some of the film's top names took pay cuts to work on the project. "Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is. 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.” Apple can dispute this claim since the company has previously cut ties with suppliers who employed underage workers. But it looks like Sorkin’s ire wasn’t stopping him from releasing those comments.
Sorkin's Steve Jobs film, which is directed by Danny Boyle and stars Michael Fassbender, is the latest in a slew of feature films and biopics that try to capture the enigmatic Apple founder's life and history, it comes to theatres this October. Little know fact, Steve Jobs consulted with Sorkin for his famous Stanford Commencement Speech.
Source: The Verge