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A new trailer has arrived for the upcoming biopic 鈥淪teve Jobs.鈥�

The new film is based on the bestselling biography of the Apple co-founder by Walter Isaacson and stars Michael Fassbender, who recently starred in the movie 鈥淪low West鈥� and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for 鈥�12 Years a Slave."

The movie co-stars actor Seth Rogen as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kate Winslet as Joanna Hoffman, who worked at Macintosh in its early days.聽

The trailer has Wozniak asking, 鈥淲hat do you do? You鈥檙e not an engineer, you鈥檙e not a designer, you can鈥檛 put a hammer to a nail. I built the circuit board, the graphical interface was stolen. So how come ten times a day, I read, 鈥楽teve Jobs is a genius鈥�? What do you do?鈥�

鈥淢usicians play their instruments,鈥� Jobs replies. 鈥淚 play the orchestra.鈥�

The project comes with a hefty pedigree. It鈥檚 directed by Danny Boyle, who won a Best Director Oscar for his 2008 movie 鈥淪lumdog Millionaire,鈥� and the screenplay for the film was written by Aaron Sorkin, who recently got audiences enthralled by a story about technology (and won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for his work) with the 2010 movie 鈥淭he Social Network.鈥澛�

Maybe you鈥檙e thinking: "Wasn鈥檛 there already a biopic about Steve Jobs?" The answer is yes. In 2013, a movie about Jobs鈥檚 life starring Ashton Kutcher of 鈥淭wo and a Half Men鈥� as Jobs and 鈥淔rozen鈥� actor Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak was released, but it came out to poor reviews, with writer Mark Jenkins, for one, writing that the film doesn鈥檛 鈥渟eriously exert itself to examine psychology or illustrate character 鈥� merely serviceable鈥� and writing that Kutcher鈥檚 鈥渁pproach is to ape Jobs's speech and movements, which he does quite well. Whether mimicry qualifies as characterization is a question for 'Jobs' viewers to answer for themselves.鈥� However, Jenkins called Gad 鈥渇ine.鈥澛�

The movie disappeared quickly and now there鈥檚 this new take, which boasts an acclaimed cast (Winslet won one Oscar and has been nominated for five others) and, with its October release date, could be an Oscar contender.

The question is, has the Hollywood trend "do-overs" now reached staid biopics? Audiences have been seeing it more and more with big-budget franchises over the past few years, with the 鈥淪pider-Man鈥� movies, the 鈥淗ulk鈥� movies, the 鈥淪uperman鈥� films, and the 鈥淔antastic Four鈥� series all being remade often only several years after the last try (if it stays on schedule, three years will separate 鈥淭he Amazing Spider-Man 2鈥� with Andrew Garfield and a new Spidey movie set for 2017 with Tom Holland, making the 10-year stretch between takes on 鈥淔antastic Four鈥� seem positively lengthy).聽

If the new take on Jobs鈥檚 life is good enough, perhaps audiences won鈥檛 mind.