Already having released two documentaries this year in Going Clear and Sinatra: All or Nothing, prolific filmmaker Alex Gibney is ready to drop one more. Mere weeks before Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic starring Michael Fassbender hits theaters, Gibney will debut documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and the first trailer for it has hit the web.
Touching on many of the same themes seen in the Ashton Kutcher-led film, Jobs, Gibney's movie will go beyond the public image of Steve Jobs to explore the reality of who he was. That includes his relationship with the people he was closest to; his colleague and family, who were often set aside in favor of his business pursuits. Here's the official synopsis:
In his signature black turtleneck and blue jeans, shrouded in shadows below a milky apple, Steve Jobs’ image was ubiquitous. But who was the man on the stage? What accounted for the grief of so many across the world when he died? From Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, ‘Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine’ is a critical examination of Jobs who was at once revered as an iconoclastic genius and a barbed-tongued tyrant. A candid look at Jobs’ legacy featuring interviews with a handful of those close to him at different stages in his life, the film is evocative and nuanced in capturing the essence of the Apple legend and his values which shape the culture of Silicon Valley to this day.
It's a film that has already stirred up a lot of controversy with one Apple exec, Eddy Cue, saying it is a total misrepresentation of who Jobs was, calling it "An inaccurate and mean-spirited view of my friend. It's not a reflection of the Steve I knew."
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine opens September 4th.
Steve Jobs The Man In The Machine by Teaser-Trailer.com
