Aaron Sorkin Responds to Apple CEO's Criticisms of STEVE JOBS Biopic

Aaron Sorkin is standing up for his latest work, even against a dissenting Apple CEO.

Sorkin responded to remarks that Apple CEO Tim Cook made on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, calling the film, "opportunistic."

"Nobody did this movie to get rich," Sorkin responded at a press junket for STEVE JOBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is."

Of course, as Sorkin is known for his piercing way with words, he went out with a bang, "Third, if you've got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you've got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic." And there's the Aaron Sorkin we know and love.

Check out a trailer for the film here, to be released Oct. 19!

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson.

Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.

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