TNT to Air 'Pirates of Plastic Valley' in Tribute to Jobs

Turner Network Television"Pirates of Plastic Valley" TNT pays tribute to late Apple co-founder Jobs on Thursday evening by airing two broadcasts of their 1999 Emmy-nominated telefilm Pirates of Plastic Valley. THR's Jobs Coverage TNT will broadcast the 1999 telefilm starring Noah Wyle as Jobs on Thursday at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET/PT. Pirates of Plastic Valley, which co-stars Anthony Michael Hall as Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Joey Slotnick as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, involves the race between Apple Computer systems and Microsoft from early dorm-room tinkering days towards the companies' boardroom battles. Wyle, inside a statement released to THR, remembered his time meeting Jobs and also the work he place in to representing him onscreen. PHOTOS: 10 Memorable Key events of Jobs' Career "Representing him in Pirates of Plastic Valley was as challenging so that as fulfilling of the role when i may have during my career," he stated. "I'd the recognition of meeting him soon after the film broadcast and was struck by his truthfulness and self-deprecating spontaneity. We now have lost a visionary whose improvements continues to affect society forever." "My condolences and ideas are together with his family who'll certainly miss him most like a husband and father," he noted. VIDEOS: Recalling Jobs The telepic, written and directed by Martyn Burke who modified the project in the best-selling book Fire within the Valley by Paul Frieberger and Michael Swaine, gained five Emmy nominations, including for outstanding designed for TV movie and writing for any movie. STORY: What's Jobs' Hollywood Legacy? Jobs died Wednesday following a seven-year fight with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com Twitter: @Snoodit RELATED: Steve Jobs' Dying: The way the Systems Covered Jobs