Ashton Kutcher To Play Late Apple Co-Founder, Steve Jobs In New Movie

Ashton Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in a movie about the late Apple co-founder from his early days as a "wayward hippie" up through to his technology ventures, according to show business publication Variety.

The independent film "Jobs" is based on a script by Matt
Whiteley and will be directed by Joshua Michael Stern ("Swing
Vote").

A separate movie project about Jobs, based on the 2011
biography by Walter Isaacson, is being developed at Sony
Pictures Studios.

Kutcher, who replaced Charlie Sheen on the long-running
television sitcom "Two and a Half Men," is scheduled to shoot
the movie during that TV series' production hiatus.

Kutcher's big-screen credits include "Valentine's Day,"
"What Happens in Vegas" and "The Butterfly Effect."