Two weeks ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ignited a brief little verbal spat with Aaron Sorkin over over his work on the new Steve Jobs biopic. In the September 15th episode, Cook briefly discussed the Michael Fassbender-starring movie — which he has not seen yet — as “opportunistic,” continuing in saying, “I hate this. It’s not a great part of our world.”
Sorkin took the remark to heart and a week after Cook appeared on Colbert, the screenwriter spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and clapped back with his own disparaging remarks:
“Nobody did this movie to get rich,” he said. “Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is.”
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“Third, if you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.”
Shots fired! But not really. And before this little kerfuffle blew up into a full on beef — or whatever the kids are calling spats like this now — Sorkin issued an apologize via E! News on Saturday. The scribe admitted the two took things too far by saying, “I apologize to Tim Cook. I hope when he sees the movie, he enjoys it as much as I enjoy his products.”
