14 DAY TRIAL // After securing the rights to have a movie made based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, Sony Pictures reportedly tapped Aaron Sokin, the writer behind The Social Network, to create a compelling story based on Isaacson’s book.
It isn’t a done deal, but according to the LA Times, Sorkin is sitting at the top of a (likely) short list of potential candidates for writing the movie. Sorkin even had the opportunity to work with Steve on a Pixar movie once.
The writer ended up turning down the offer because he lacked the ability to “make inanimate objects talk”, or so he thought:
Jobs reportedly told the writer, “Once you make them talk they won’t be inanimate,” to which Sorkin replied: “The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar.”