Aaron Sorkin To Adapt STEVE JOBS Biopic? That’d Be Awesome!

Earlier this month, Deadline reported that Sony Pictures was in the process of acquiring the screen rights to the authorized biography on late great Steve Jobs, by former CNN Chairman and Time Magazine’s managing editor Walter Isaacson.
Isaacson’s book is a 448-page profile, based on over 40 interviews with the late Apple co-founder and over 100 conversations with his friends, family members, colleagues, and competitors.
24 Frames reported that Sony is moving forward with the biopic adaptation and they want their Oscar winning screenwriter of The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin to take on the job…
Sorkin is being considered but decisions about his involvement have not been made. But let’s face it, is there any other scribe better to do this than Sorkin who’s good at fast and fiercely smart dialogue, probably the kind of thing that this type of film needs and Sorkin has his own way of presenting themes of loyalty and competition.

Here’s a fun fact that the article shared.. Jobs actually asked Sorkin if he’d be willing to write a Pixar movie, an offer which Sorkin declined because he said he couldn’t.. “make inanimate objects talk”
I guess the writer who brought us Sports Night, The West Wing, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Social Network, and Moneyball does have a weakness after all.

Here’s Isaacson’s book‘s official synopsis..

From the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive biography of Steve Jobs.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.

Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.