New 'Steve Jobs' Trailer Shows the Dark Side of the Apple Founder's Genius

It isn’t easy being brilliant, as is shown in the new trailer above for Steve Jobs.

While the first teaser of Danny Boyle’s biopic about Apple’s late founder offered little more than a quick peek at Michael Fassbender as the late tech icon, this longer look delves deeper into his story and his sometimes contentious relationships with people who were closest to him. The trailer teases a movie that just might be worthy of his complex genius.

It’s clear Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) isn’t shying away from the messier side of Jobs. For one, Katherine Waterston is shown in the role of Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’s high school sweetheart. Brennan mothered the tech executive’s first child — a daughter, who for years, Jobs denied was his. In the new footage she demands money from the rich entrepreneur, informing him she and his daughter are on welfare.

The trailer begins with Seth Rogen as Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, pointing out the obvious: that Jobs wasn't exactly the technical whiz behind the company. “What do you do?” he asks. “You’re not an engineer. You’re not a designer.” Job responds: "Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra."

Jobs, known for being demanding, even cruel, to his staff, gets called out for his God complex by original Apple Macintosh team member Andy Hertzfeld (played by A Serious Man’s Michael Stuhlbarg). He gets brought down to Earth by another original Apple staffer, Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet): “I’m begging you to manage expectations out there.” John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), the man who eventually dethrones Jobs at Apple, is the most blunt: “You make people miserable.”

Written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and based on Walter Isaacson’s biography, Steve Jobs, powers on in theaters Oct. 8.