First and foremost, Sorkin notes that he had no intention of writing a biopic. Yet this, it seems, is exactly what many of the critics of the film were looking for — this, despite the fact that we’ve literally seen this movie before. And it was awful.
I can’t help but contrast with The Social Network, where I think it’s the same case.
Both times, Sorkin aims to play mythology instead of reality and I wonder if David Fincher as a director was better suited to expressing that, or understood that better than Danny Boyle.
I’d give anything to see the unproduced Fincher/ Christian Bale version that was originally mooted.