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Can they make a sequel to this?

posted 5 years ago by Heisenberg (6730)
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Hollywood is useless.
Yes, it's run by non artists that only care for the easy buck. Yet they make a sequel out of anything, but the movies that actually NEED a sequel, like this one, don't get it.
The actors are all still there and solid, the story for a second part is here and totally amazing. (including google stealing from Apple OS...again! lol)

Why can't they just do a sequel that covers the return of Steve Jobs and the turn of Bill Gates to humanitarian?
Till 2020 would be preferred, but at least make it till Jobs's death.
Wake up, Hollywood assholes!

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 5 years ago

Nice to see this film get some appreciation. It is one of the best TV movies of all time, and also one of the best movies about computers. TNT was firing on all cylinders with their original movies at the end of the 90s. They also produced the '99 version of A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart and it was very good.

As far as a sequel goes, I am much less enthusiastic about computers and technology now than I was at the time POSV was released, but if they made it I'd certainly watch it.

On a similar note, I remember there was some talk a little while back about a possible sequel to The Social Network since so much has happened on the Facebook front in the last decade. I'd watch that, too.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

The Social Network 2 might be less interesting than a sequel to POSV, but if it's half as good as the first one, I'm up for that too.
I say this because the birth of such a big enterprise is certainly more interesting than see it go from 1 billion to 2.4 billion users. What else has happened since the end of the first one?

Anyway, both these movies were awesome because you see them go from 0 to the top of the world.
A sequel to POSV could have a similar story arch since Apple in 95 was on cerebral coma and in life support, waiting to pull the plug. So was Steve Jobs and his Next.
To go from there to #1 company in the world, that's an awesome story everybody wants to watch!

Netflix or Amazon could make a sequel, they are the ones rolling out these kind of movies nowadays.
Unless they are envious of the protagonists (I doubt they could write Jeff Bezos in, he's not much of a pirate and he's out of silicon valley). Anyway, make this sequel NOW!

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 5 years ago

Oh, I think that if a sequel was made to The Social Network it would be about the rocky road Facebook has faced in recent years with the invasion of privacy, threat to free speech, alleged political bias and Zuckerberg's fears about government regulation. There's definitely a story there.

As for POSV, yeah, I guess it would focus on Jobs' ousting from Apple, the NeXT era, and the ascension of Apple after he was brought back into the company. The narrative seems less clear for Gates.

BTW, if you like stuff about this era of tech history, and you haven't seen it, I would recommend NatGeo's series Valley of the Boom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTv-s_rOFcQ

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Yes, well for Gates I would show how he let Ballmer fuck up the company.

In particular I would love to see a scene with him either furious, but more likely just disappointed or sad, once he realizes they completely lost the boat on smartphones (again, thanks to the genius in charge).

But his turn from shark to benefactor is also interesting, I think he did find enlightment at the end of the tunnel, would be great to see a scene where he chats about life with Jobs once they are mature and friends.

Hey PrimeMinisterX thanks a lot for the link, I'll check that out!

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

We already got not one but two movies about Jobs. Both are not as good as this movie.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Yet both movies got 100 times more publicity, unfortunately.
But there's a flipside to that: they cost waaay more than this one. A sequel shouldn't be that much of a problem for any studio.
Both main actors are quite cheap comparatively, I'm sure they could afford it with no sweat.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 5 years ago

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[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 5 years ago

You're probably right about neither film being as good as Pirates of Silicon Valley, but Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs is brilliant. I've watched it multiple times and think it's excellent. It should've done better business at the box office and also should've gotten a Best Picture nomination.

Jobs (2013), on the other hand, sucks and was very disappointing. Though I would give Kutcher credit for his performance. He was much better than the movie he was in.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Fassbender doesn't even resemble Jobs... like at all. That was the most ridiculous cast of any biopic movies I can recall. At least Kutcher looks like Jobs.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8707) 5 years ago

I agree that I didn't see much of the real Steve Jobs in Fassbender, but I still found the film to be a very well-made and engaging piece of cinema. I've probably watched it four or five times now. I think it really is quite good and, as I said, got unfairly snubbed by both moviegoers and the Academy.

Considering how big the Apple cult is I figured there'd be more interest in a Steve Jobs project with a high-level talent like Fassbender in the lead.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Yes bur keep in mind that Jobs cultists are just slightly less foolish than Nyarlathotep's ones...

[–] AdamS (336) 5 years ago

It wouldn't be 'Pirates' then would it?

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Why not?

[–] AdamS (336) 5 years ago

Thje story was about how Gates saw genius and took it, ala Edison/Tesla.... how history repeats...

Jobs/Tesla had true creative genius and Gates/Edison knew how to market it.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Jobs had the creative genius of stealing the point and click OS from xerox.
That's a pirate in my book (he also managed to f it up for years before getting it okish, with his real genius input like one mouse button and other bad ideas). Is that what you are talking about?

Anyway, they would still be pirates, both of them, I would just add the guys at google for stealing android from Apple in the same exact way that MS stole windows years before.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

And Jobs pirated capacitive touchscreen for iPhone from LG just like he stole GUI from Xerox.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

And Samsung pirated the square shape from Apple, which obviously invented that shape for the iPhone. Before 2007 we only had square or triangles or pentagons.

[–] mikethemartian (6710) 5 years ago

I would love to see a TV movie about the rise and crash of Atari.

[–] manwithoutaplan (227) 5 years ago

Space Invaders
Yes!
I lost many hours of beat-off time to playing Space Invaders.
And what the heck did I just find out? Blows my mind.
Sunnyvale, Ca is the home to Atari... That's the place where ProtoVision was from War Games. "ProtoVision I have you now" he states.
F me I'm going to go masturbate, to Princess Daphne from Dragon's Lair, while playing Pong, Space Invaders and Asteroids. Wish me luck.

This post is so off of what you stated, yet I agree a movie about the rise and fall of Atari would be cool. Heck why not Intellivison and Colecovision as well.

E.T. games found in the landfill, waves hand and says "we aren't the games you're looking for."