Seeing as principal photography has already begun for the Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher in the lead role, more casting news are now expected to trickle in. The latest bit comes to us courtesy of CBS News, which reports that Matthew Modine has been tapped to play former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Modine, who has close to three decades of acting experience under his belt, will take on the role of the film’s presumptive primary antagonist. That is, if Kutcher’s Jobs won’t be so much of an antihero already as to be his own adversary. A former president of PepsiCo, Sculley is known for being the person to which Jobs made one of his most famous pitches: “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?” Sculley would later accept Jobs’ challenge and eventually engage in a power struggle against him, leading to the Apple co-founder’s “firing.” Read More
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