Aaron Sorkin to pen screenplay for Steve Jobs film
Life and times of Steve Jobs, seen in this larger-than-life projection with Apple-co founder Steve Wozniak. — Reuters file picLOS ANGELES, May 16 — Steve Jobs’ life will be brought to the big screen by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a movie based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the enigmatic co-founder of Apple, maker of iPods and iPads.
Aaron Sorkin, nominated for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for “The Social Network”. — Reuters file picSony Pictures Entertainment yesterday unveiled plans to put Sorkin, who wrote Facebook film “The Social Network”, behind the screenplay of what will be a major release for the movie studio.
“There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarising,” Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in a statement.
Sorkin will adapt Isaacson’s biography, which topped book charts and became the top-seller of 2011 following Jobs’ death last October after a long battle with cancer.
Sorkin won a best adapted screenplay Oscar for his work on “Social Network” in 2011, and was nominated for a best writing Oscar in 2012 for “Moneyball”.
He also penned TV political drama “The West Wing” and is the creator of upcoming HBO’s “The Newsroom”, a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional cable news channel. — Reuters
