Katherine Waterston Boards Universal's Steve Jobs Biopic

According to The Hollywood Reporter, INHERENT VICE's Katherine Waterston has signed on for Universal Pictures' Steve Jobs biopic, directed by Danny Boyle.

Michael Fassbender is currently attached to play JOBS - after stepping in for Christian Bale, who originally signed on after Leonardo DiCaprio's departure. Seth Rogen will play Steve Wozniak. Waterston will take on the role of "Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' high school girlfriend, longtime partner and the mother of his first child."

As recently reported, Michael Stuhlbarg has also joined the cast as Andy Hertzfeld.

Universal recently picked up Sony's dropped Steve JOBS biopic at a cost of more than $30 million.

Aaron Sorkin penned the script for the film, based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs. Produced by Scott Rudin, Guymon Casady and Mark Gordon, the movie was set to begin production this winter.

The film was last described as being divided into three acts, each showing JOBS in preparation for an upcoming presentation that would eventually change his life and the future of his company.

Waterston has appeared onstage in off-Broadway's The Cherry Orchard, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling and Kindness. She will next appear on film in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers, Manhattan Romance, Night Moves, Glass Chin, Fluidic and Red Light Winter. Other film credits include: Taking Woodstock, Michael Clayton, Almost in Love, The Factory, The Letter, Good Dick, The Babysitters and more.

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