Aaron Sorkin Writing Steve Jobs Movie? Writer Being Courted, Report Says

Aaron Sorkin's last two films have been adaptations of books about a game changing tech mogul and a dynamic personality who wasn't afraid to think differently to achieve success. Which makes him a very logical choice to take on the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic.

According to the LA Times, the TV and film vet is amongst Sony's top choices to adapt Walter Isaacson's new biography of the late Apple co-founder, who died earlier this month. The studio purchased the film rights to the book shortly thereafter and have made the project a high priority.

An Oscar winner for his spitfire take on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook in "The Social Network" and one of the pens behind this fall's "Moneyball," the story of Oakland A's general manager Bill Beane's newage, statistical approach to the game of baseball, Sorkin does big personalities well. He created and wrote many of the best episodes of the White House drama, "The West Wing," while also writing the political comedy "Charlie Wilson's War," and the dramas "The American President" and "A Few Good Men."

For more, click over to the LA Times. For details from the Isaacson book, click here.

Comments

[Cloball]

11:36 AM on 10/29/2011

Reading the book now. It's pretty good, if you haven't picked it up already.

I'd go see the movie. Loved The Social Network.

[Wookiee1972]

10:41 AM on 10/26/2011

Anyone remeber the TV Movie Pirates Of Silicon Valley? Noah Wyle played Jobs and a pre-buffed-up Anthony Michael Hall played BIll Gates. Good casting, IMHO.

[jokamachi]

10:25 PM on 10/25/2011

The hagiography continues....

Give it up. The man was a decent PR guy, a good CEO, and had a few ideas along the way. He didn't invent the television. Or the phone. Heck, he didn't even invent the computer. Just a dude with a company. Let it go already.

[DennyCrane]

07:56 PM on 10/25/2011

Great. That means the dialogue will be awful.

[raker]

05:16 PM on 10/25/2011

An Aaron Sorkin-style story about brilliant, driven dbags walking while talking very fast in well-crafted paragraphs seems right for a movie about Steve Jobs.

[itsjules]

04:59 PM on 10/25/2011

Haven't seen Moneyball but I thought The Social Network was pretty freakin' brilliant, so I'd definitely see a Steve Jobs movie written by Sorkin.

Er, one last thing, HuffPost: "newage" is not a word. I think you meant "new age." >_

[tyrant510]

02:25 PM on 10/25/2011

he is the perfect choice for screenwriter. i'd love to see milos forman direct.

[lobwedge39]

12:43 PM on 10/25/2011

Who is Aaron Sorkin?

[Reality now]

12:34 PM on 10/25/2011

Wow...didn't take long for the vulchers to circle.

[jackstpaul]

12:26 AM on 10/26/2011

or the vultures

[Lucille]

11:51 AM on 10/25/2011

Strange, I didn't know Steve Jobs but somehow I miss him or at least the anticipation of one his presentations regarding a new Apple device, it’s truly the end of an era.

[rudewaitress]

11:21 AM on 10/25/2011

Not interested. There's been more than enough on the tube already.

[tuberider]

11:10 AM on 10/25/2011

Only one actor can play Jobs: Daniel Day Lewis.

[Jason Ungar]

12:27 PM on 10/25/2011

exactly who I thought of as I read this.

[trinitytim]

02:21 PM on 10/25/2011

Good choice, although I think that Jim Caviezel could do a great job(s), as well.

[dbw53022]

10:51 AM on 10/25/2011

Just saw Moneyball. If Sorkin writes it, I'll go see it. Big fan.

[Guytar]

10:02 AM on 10/25/2011

Steve Jobs was good at marketing, but he was no computer genius.
iPod, iPhone and iPad are all just variations on previous products by other companies.

[adonismarrero]

10:00 AM on 10/25/2011

I personally think that Aaron Sorkin would be the right person to pen Job's biography into a screenplay. He's got an excellent track record. Now, who would play Steve? That's going to be tough. Depends if the writer and director want to do what Todd Haynes did with the Bob Dylan movie "I'm Not There", where different actors play Dylan in different eras of his life.