--- title: Steve Jobs Movie Trailer: Michael Fassbender, Aaron Sorkin, Seth Rogen description: A second Steve Jobs biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle, will be released in October. canonical: https://time.com/3943280/steve-jobs-biopic-trailer/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-01T16:35:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:19.234Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Michael Fassbender Channel Steve Jobs in the New Biopic Trailer og:description: A second Steve Jobs biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle, will be released in October. og:url: https://time.com/3943280/steve-jobs-biopic-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31b8b806631546ac/698859542dce0115a99e4708/michael-fassbender.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Michael Fassbender attends the "Macbeth" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Michael Fassbender Channel Steve Jobs in the New Biopic Trailer twitter:description: A second Steve Jobs biopic, starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle, will be released in October. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31b8b806631546ac/698859542dce0115a99e4708/michael-fassbender.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Michael Fassbender Channel Steve Jobs in the New Biopic Trailer  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 1, 2015 4:35 PM UTC  Michael Fassbender attends the "Macbeth" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2015. Michael Fassbender attends the "Macbeth" premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2015.Anthony Harvey--FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Jul 1, 2015 4:35 PM UTC If, like the majority of critics, you weren’t satisfied with the 2013 Steve Jobs biopic _Jobs_, there’s hope yet that a second attempt might make you forget a bespectacled Ashton Kutcher. The second film, _Steve Jobs_, is based on Walter Isaacson’s official biography, with Danny Boyle in the director’s seat and a screenplay penned by Aaron Sorkin. The trailer plays like one long Sorkin-esque reproach of the demanding, arrogant Jobs, as played by Fassbender, with criticism levied by colleagues (Steve Wozniak, played by Seth Rogen, and Joanna Hoffman, played by Kate Winslet), executives (John Sculley, played by Jeff Daniels) and his spurned ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston). Though _Steve Jobs_ will be released two years after _Jobs_, Sony Pictures acquired the rights to the biography roughly a year before production began on _Jobs_. Sorkin has said that the film will consist of three acts, each one dramatizing the events leading up to a major Apple product launch. _Steve Jobs_ hits theaters Oct. 9. ### Biopic Actors and Their Real-Life Counterparts  Meryl Streep plays Emmeline Pankhurst in Suffragette Focus; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images  Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs in Steve Jobs Universal; Bob Riha Jr—Getty Images  Ellen Page plays Stacie Andree in Freeheld Lionsgate; Tom Spader—AP  Joseph Gordon Levitt plays Philippe Petit in The Walk Sony Pictures; Dave Pickoff—AP  Johnny Depp plays James 'Whitey' Bulger in Black Mass Warner Brothers; AP  André Benjamin plays Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side Patrick Redmond—XLrator Media; Photoshot/Getty Images  Adrien Brody plays Harry Houdini in Houdini. History Channel; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Chadwick Boseman plays James Brown in Get On Up. Universal Pictures; Gilles Petard—Redferns/Getty Images  Ashton Kutcher plays Steven Jobs in Jobs. Open Road Films; Tom Munnecke/Getty Images  Cate Blanchett plays Bob Dylan in I'm Not There. Weinstein Co.; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  James Franco plays James Dean in James Dean. Getty Images (2)  Meryl Streep plays Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Weinstein Co.; Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Benedict Cumberbatch plays Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. Disney; Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images  Anthony Hopkins plays Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock. Fox Searchlight; NBC/Getty Images  Salma Hayek plays Frida Kahlo in Frida. Miramax; Popperfoto/Getty Images  Gary Oldman plays Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. MGM; Richard E. Aaron—Redferns/Getty Images  Denzel Washington plays Malcolm X in Malcolm X. Warner Bros.; Truman Moore—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images  Leonardo DiCaprio plays J. Edgar Hoover in J. Edgar. Warner Bros.; Bachrach/Getty Images  Ben Kingsley plays Gandhi in Gandhi. Columbia; Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images  Michelle Williams plays Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. Weinstein Co.; NBC/Getty Images  Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. 20th Century Fox; David Gahr/Getty Images  Daniel Day-Lewis plays President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. 20th Century Fox; Culture Club/Getty Images  Don Cheadle plays Miles Davis in Miles Ahead. Brian Douglas, Ton Pouw—AP  Demetrius Shipp Jr. plays Tupac Shakur in All Eyez on Me. Summit Entertainment; Raymond Boyd—Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3943280/steve-jobs-biopic-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3943280/steve-jobs-biopic-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch Michael Fassbender Channel Steve Jobs in the New Biopic Trailer","datePublished":"2015-07-01T16:35:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:19.234Z","description":"“Musicians play their instruments. 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