Aaron Sorkin movie will cover Steve Jobs biography
I started reading the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs today, while I was multitasking on a photography job. I don’t mind being a little late, since I object to paying full retail for a book and I wanted the “excitement” to settle down a bit. I was based in Internet Services at Apple for a year in Valley Green 5 and 6, as a Netscape employee. I had no desire to meet with Steve Jobs (individual meetings with Steve Jobs are usually a BAD thing 
) but I had NO doubt, as I stood 50 feet from him in Café Mac, that he knew who I was, how much Apple paid to have me on site, and whether I was doing my job. I had two “one-on-ones” with Eddy Cue, VP of Internet Services, – one on entry, one on exit. I heard Steve speak to the troops at the introduction of the first version of MacOS X, for which I have a “Gold Master” and the MacOS X T-shirt given to Apple employees. Now, the rumors have been confirmed that the Academy Award-winning screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin (for “The Social Network”) has accepted a Sony offer to write a screenplay based on the life of Steve Jobs.
“Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time,” co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Amy Pascal said in a statement today. “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 polarizing.”
Sorkin is best known for his Academy Award-winning adaptation of “The Social Network,” which is based on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. However, Sorkin has also written several other films, plays, and TV shows, such as “The West Wing,” “Moneyball,” and “A Few Good Men.”
Sony has the rights to the Walter Isaacson biography, “Steve Jobs” shortly after Jobs’ death at 56 of a rare form of pancreatic cancer. According to the Web site, “Film,” Sony closed the deal for $1 million. Steve Jobs was Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011. In addition, the biography was #1 among bestselling hardcover books by a 2:1 margin, with sales of 2,246,569 in 2011, according to Publisher’s Weekly.
Rumors suggest that Sony was looking to get George Clooney or Noah Wyle to play the role of Jobs.
-Bill at
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