There's something strange about the thought of Hollywood reconstructing Steve Jobs' early Los Altos, California home on a backlot somewhere in Southern California. Thankfully, for Apple purists, filming for one of the two Steve Jobs movies currently in production will make use of the real-world home where Jobs grew up and, more importantly, co-founded his company.
According to the latest release from Five Star Feature films, principal photography for jOBS will start in June and early scenes will be shot in the very Los Altos house and garage that played such an instrumental role in Jobs' early Silicon Valley life. The famous "Apple Garage" is the site where Jobs and Wozniak assembled a good chunk of the first 50-unit order for Apple-1 computers – a $50,000 order that set the stage for the eventual incorporation of Apple (in preparation of the launch of the Apple II system) in 1977.
The film has been in the works since August of 2011, the exact month of Jobs' resignation as Apple's longtime CEO. Ashton Kutcher's taking the helm as Jobs himself, and early shots of the star in Jobs' trademark blue jeans and black turtleneck ensemble have already hit the Web. Director Joshua Michael Stern – who has directed all of two releases prior to jumping on board the jOBS film – will present the "major moments" and "defining characters" that made up Jobs' life between 1971 and 2000.
"The film covers Jobs from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that," reads the release.
jOBS is expected to hit theaters later on this year. But it won't be the first and only Steve Jobs-related film to reach the silver screen. Sony just recently announced that the screenplay for its competing unnamed film based on Walter Isaacson's official biography, "Steve Jobs," is all in the hands of "The Social Network" writer Aaron Sorkin.
However, Sony has yet to fill the actual role of Steve Jobs for its big film. Early rumors have brought up either George Clooney or "Pirates of Silicon Valley" star Noah Wyle as possible contenders for the role.
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