MUMBAI: The Steve Jobs biopic has got a shot in the arm after Kevin Dunn and J.K. Simmons have joined the cast of Jobs, that stars Ashton Kutcher as the late Apple co-founder along with Elden Henson, Lenny Jacobson, Giles Matthey, Ahna O‘Reilly and Victor Rasuk.
The fim, being directed by Joshua Michael Stern from an original screenplay by Matt Whiteley, is a Five Star feature film production, produced by Mark Hulme.
Dunn, who recently co-starred in HBO‘s Luck, will play Apple chairman Gil Amelio while Simmons will appear as venture capitalist and Apple investor Arthur Rock. Among the other additions to the cast, Henson plays computer scientist and Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld while Jacobson portrays Apple engineer Burrell Smith; Matthey is iPod designer Jonathan Ive; O‘Reilly plays Jobs‘ girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan and Rasuk essays the role of Apple‘s first employee and user interface architect Bill Fernandez.
Names of cast members whose names were earlier announced include Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak, Ron Eldard, John Getz, Lukas Haas, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Modine, Lesley Ann Warren and James Woods.