The Former Batman As Steve Jobs

EThis week a piece of news came out that Christian Bale (the former batman) is going to play steve jobs in the new steve jobs biopic. I am vey happy that they are going to retry a Steve Jobs biopic, because the last one with Ashton Kutcher as Jobs was awful. A few months ago David Fincher was set to direct this movie, which would have been great, because David Fincher is a great director and he already proved himself with the biopic of Mark Zuckerburg in The Social Network. But David Fincher wanted Christian Bale to play jobs, $10 000 000, and full creative control, but the studio didn't want that so they went to find another director. They found Danny Boyle who is also a really good pick for director, because Danny Boyle has great movie he has directed like the oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and 28 Days later, he also has some not so good movies, but still I trust him.

A few weeks ago the studio released a short list of actors who they wanted to play steve jobs, and on that list was Christian Bale, Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio. All of these names were good, these are really good actors who could play Jobs great. But Christian Bale really stuck out to me because I think his real personality is a close fit to Steve Jobs's personality, because Steve Jobs wasn't the easiest person to work with, and he was also known for some temper tantrums, and Christian Bale from what I hear he is really easy to work with and he is a nice guy, but if you heard the audio clip that is on youtube, you can tell that he has his temper. In the audio clip you here him scream at one of the sound and lighting guys because he accidentally got in the shot in Terminator Salvation, and the clip is almost five minutes long. So obviously Christian Bale has the temper that is needed as jobs, and he would also play the business side of Steve jobs very well, because he also played Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Christian Bale in my opinion is one of the best actors out there and he takes his job very seriously. The reason why I think Christian Bale is one of the best actors is because he is willing to sacrifice his body and his mind for a role if he has to. For example for the movie The Machinist Christian Bale lost a scary amount of weight, he was 120 pounds and within a year he bulked up 100 pounds to 220 pounds for Batman Begins, here is a picture so you can see what he went through:

With Steve Jobs, Christian Bale doesn't really have to do anything crazy to his body, but it is just good to know that he is willing to do anything to be the best actor he can be. I think Christian Bale is perfect for this role, the only question for his role as Steve Jobs is how does he look in a turtle neck?