Ashton Kutcher, 34, the comedic actor who got his break on “That ’70s Show,” will head back to the 1970s to play the tech-innovator Steve Jobs in an indie film about Jobs’ early life and the founding of Apple. The production on the film, “Jobs,” is scheduled to start in May while Kutcher is on his break from his hit CBS series “Two and a Half Men,” reported by Variety, the film-industry trade publication. Kutcher is one of the more tech-savvy actors in Hollywood. He was an early fervent user of Twitter, where he has 10 million followers, and has invested in a number of Silicon Valley startups. According to Variety, the film will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern, who also directed “Swing Vote” and “will chronicle Steve Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple.”
Jeff Sneider, the writer of the article in Variety, said on Twitter on Sunday that “Jobs” will follow Jobs from when he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976, to when Jobs returned to the company in the late 1990s after he was forced out. The film won’t cover Jobs’ later years. Jobs died last October after a hard battle with cancer. In his younger days, Jobs dropped out of college and backpacked across India before launching the company that would make him one of the world’s most celebrated entrepreneurs.
