Briefly: Aaron Sorkin reportedly finishes script for Steve Jobs biopic
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has turned in a script for a full-length feature film adaptation of Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Tacked on to a report discussing the renewal and final season of Sorkin's HBO drama series "The Newsroom," Variety confirmed that the "Social Network" scribe has handed in a script for the as-yet-untitled Jobs project.
Details regarding the script are scant, though Sorkin has stated in the past that his Jobs biopic would be more akin to a painting than a photograph. In a 2012 interview at AllThingsD's D10 conference, Sorkin likened the challenge to writing a screenplay about the Beatles.
"I'm probably going to instead identify the point of friction that appeals to me and write about that," Sorkin said, adding that Jobs was "an extremely complicated guy, that I know for sure."
Word that Sony was looking to make the film first came in October 2011, just weeks after Jobs lost his fight with pancreatic cancer. In 2012, Sorkin officially signed on to pen the script, which will be an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" biography. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is also attached to the film as a "tutor" to cast and crew.
In subsequent interviews, Sorkin revealed the movie will consist of scenes that take place before the unveilings of three key products: the original Mac, NeXT and the iPod. Jobs was well known for his public speaking prowess, especially during keynotes and product introductions.
The upcoming movie will be the second attempt at a Steve Jobs feature after indie film "Jobs," the ill-received Ashton Kutcher vehicle released in 2013.
Tacked on to a report discussing the renewal and final season of Sorkin's HBO drama series "The Newsroom," Variety confirmed that the "Social Network" scribe has handed in a script for the as-yet-untitled Jobs project.
Details regarding the script are scant, though Sorkin has stated in the past that his Jobs biopic would be more akin to a painting than a photograph. In a 2012 interview at AllThingsD's D10 conference, Sorkin likened the challenge to writing a screenplay about the Beatles.
"I'm probably going to instead identify the point of friction that appeals to me and write about that," Sorkin said, adding that Jobs was "an extremely complicated guy, that I know for sure."
Word that Sony was looking to make the film first came in October 2011, just weeks after Jobs lost his fight with pancreatic cancer. In 2012, Sorkin officially signed on to pen the script, which will be an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" biography. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is also attached to the film as a "tutor" to cast and crew.
In subsequent interviews, Sorkin revealed the movie will consist of scenes that take place before the unveilings of three key products: the original Mac, NeXT and the iPod. Jobs was well known for his public speaking prowess, especially during keynotes and product introductions.
The upcoming movie will be the second attempt at a Steve Jobs feature after indie film "Jobs," the ill-received Ashton Kutcher vehicle released in 2013.
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I really hope they hire a great director to helm this. The Social Network was very watchable since it had David Fincher directing Alan's script.
Fincher's visual style is top-notch, as is his directing style.
The Steve Jobs movie will live or die based on the director they select.
I know that sounds like I am bashing him but you shouldn't take it that way. That really isn't my point. He just wants to make entertaining movies and that is his focus. He has said as much in various interviews.
Sorkin is a talented guy but he isn't the one you want writing a movie about Steve Jobs if you want a factual history lesson.
-kpluck
If anyone is really interested in Steve Jobs I am pretty sure you won't be interested in the movie made from Sorkin's script. He isn't concerned about getting facts correct, he will just be concerned about making a movie that sells tickets and gets awards.
I know that sounds like I am bashing him but you shouldn't take it that way. That really isn't my point. He just wants to make entertaining movies and that is his focus. He has said as much in various interviews.
Sorkin is a talented guy but he isn't the one you want writing a movie about Steve Jobs if you want a factual history lesson.
-kpluck
True, but a factual history lesson is something we'll watch on PBS, not in theaters. I don't expect them to be the same. The Social Network isn't the true story of Facebook, but it's a good movie. I'm not convinced that Jobs's story is as compelling (in terms of character dynamics, etc.), but Sorkin can write. At any rate, it can't be worse than the Kutcher movie.
What a perfect segue for me to paraphrase Sorkin's A Few Good Men.
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It would take a mini-series a month long to fairly cover the life and impact of Steve Jobs.
How about Christian Bale? He had a slightly early Steve Jobs-ish look in American Hustle, and can certainly deliver the anger part real well...I think he is/was into Zen as well...
I thought Isaacson did well, but to each his own I suppose.
It would take a mini-series a month long to fairly cover the life and impact of Steve Jobs.
Look, I love Jobs and Apple, but I would never watch a...what?...20 episode miniseries, 2 hours a night, about him. That's crazy. Gandhi...Lawrence of Arabia...these are movies that got things wrong but hit essential truths...and did it in 3-4 hours. I don't think Jobs needs more than that. (That said, I also don't think that any movie about Jobs is going to hit those heights.)
Hopefully he does a better job than Isaacson did.
What’s that supposed to mean? Isaacson’s biography of Jobs is a scholarly work, well written, referenced to the hilt. I’ve actually read it. Have you? He also wrote an amazing biography of Albert Einstein which I have also read. It’s superior to several other biographies written about the great scientist, and I’ve read those too.
That's good news, I guess, because the movie Jobs was one of the worst pictures I have ever seen. And I'm somewhat of a movie buff.
Isaacson had a golden, once-in-a-lifetime oppourtunity and he blew it. Big time.
http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/15/siracusa-jobs-bio
It means exactly what it says. I hope Sorkin does better with the source material than Isaacson did.
Isaacson had a golden, once-in-a-lifetime oppourtunity and he blew it. Big time.
http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/15/siracusa-jobs-bio
Like I’m going to take Gruber seriously.
It means exactly what it says. I hope Sorkin does better with the source material than Isaacson did.
Isaacson had a golden, once-in-a-lifetime oppourtunity and he blew it. Big time.
http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/15/siracusa-jobs-bio
Isaacson was rushed to publish, too, though. He said at the q&a for a talk I attended (about Kissinger, not Jobs) that he intended to work on the book for at least another year before publication. The book certainly doesn't have the polish of his Kissinger and Franklin biographies.
That said, he may or may not have noticed the errors in judgment cited in your articles if he'd had more time to interview more people (including more time with Jobs).