Sorkin 'Strongly Considering' Writing Steve Jobs Biopic

Screenwriter, producer and playwright Aaron Sorkin is “strongly considering” writing the screenplay for a biopic on Steve Jobs. The movie will be based on the official Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.

It is known that Sony Pictures has already acquired the rights to turn Isaacson’s bio into a film. All the studio needed was a kick a** screenplay writer (after all, the movie is about one of the most iconic figures of our time), and an even better actor for the job.

Reportedly, two actors who both starred in ER, the popular TV series, are battling it out for the role of Apple’s co-founder. Those actors are George Clooney and Noah Wyle, the latter having already portrayed Jobs in Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Most recently, Sorkin was quoted as telling E! Online: “Sony has asked me to write the movie and it’s something I’m strongly considering.”

"Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," he said at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2011 event in Santa Monica. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it," he said.

However, there’s a bit of a problem. Sorkin’s only means of reference to the late Apple co-founder is Isaacson’s book, the report suggests.

Speaking to the aforementioned publication, he also said (of Jobs): “He was a great entrepreneur, he was a great artist, a great thinker. [...] He’s probably inspired my 11-year-old daughter Roxy more than he’s inspired me. She plays with all his toys.”

Editor’s note
I don’t reckon Sorkin could write a bad screenplay about Jobs even if he set his mind to it, but I do believe Sony should also consider hiring a writer who was more involved with Jobs, Apple, and / or the products themselves. You don’t write such an important script based on what you read in a book.

Sorkin may have won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Facebook flick ‘The Social Network’, but Zuckerberg was not too happy with how he was portrayed, according to reports.