You had to see this one coming a mile away after hearing that Sony Pictures obtained the rights to a film version of Steve Jobs’s biography. The LA Times reports that Aaron Sorkin, the writer behind the Mark Zuckerberg biopic The Social Network, is reportedly in consideration to write a screenplay based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs.
Sorkin’s screenplay for The Social Network won an Academy Award, so he seems an ideal candidate for a film version of Steve Jobs. He has a well-deserved reputation for writing smart dialogue coming from smart characters — if you’ve ever bellowed “You can’t HANDLE the truth” at one of your friends in a faux-Jack Nicholson drawl, thank Sorkin for his screenplay for A Few Good Men.
Condensing Steve Jobs’s entire life into a 2.5-hour film is going to be a monumental task no matter who tries to tackle it. Isaacson’s biography is richly detailed, and much of that detail is going to wind up on the cutting room floor when translated to film. After having read through Steve Jobs myself, I’ll be very interested to see which parts of it end up onscreen.
Aaron Sorkin reportedly considered to write Jobs biopic originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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