Aaron Sorkin 'Strongly Considering' Writing Screenplay for Steve Jobs Movie
Last month, it was reported that Sony Pictures was courting Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay for the movie version of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Sorkin, who is famous for his work on The West Wing, The Social Network, Moneyball, and A Few Good Men, has been seen as a strong contender for the job and already worked with Sony on another tech story with The Social Network.
E! Online now reports that Sorkin has publicly addressed the rumors, noting that he is "strongly considering" taking on the screenplay.
"Sony has asked me to write the movie and it's something I'm strongly considering," Sorkin told us at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2011 event in Santa Monica.While work on the screenplay is obviously yet to get underway, rumors have suggested that George Clooney and Noah Wyle are leading contenders to play the role of Steve Jobs. Wyle previously portrayed Jobs in the 1999 made-for-TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley.
...
"Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," he said. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it."
Top Rated Comments
(View all)
20 months ago
I disagree with this statement: "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it."
The wrong writer could really screw it up. It is a really big movie and it's going to take a very talented and thoughtful writer to make it great.
The wrong writer could really screw it up. It is a really big movie and it's going to take a very talented and thoughtful writer to make it great.
20 months ago
I say Jesse Moss, for at least a young Steve:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1536605/
Or Samuel L. Jackson... "GET THESE MOTHER______ BUGS OUTTA MY MOTHER______ CLOUD!"
Edit: I can't seem to type middle initials.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1536605/
Or Samuel L. Jackson... "GET THESE MOTHER______ BUGS OUTTA MY MOTHER______ CLOUD!"
Edit: I can't seem to type middle initials.
20 months ago
Ashton Kutcher really has the look that is needed to pull off playing Jobs.
You must be joking...that idiot should never play SJ.
20 months ago
First: Please choose Noah, it's the obvious choice and he met Steve.
Second: Reference more than just his biography, especially as Woz is still around, along with Sculley and the gang. The book is flawed, so would the movie, sadly.
Second: Reference more than just his biography, especially as Woz is still around, along with Sculley and the gang. The book is flawed, so would the movie, sadly.
20 months ago
Ashton Kutcher really has the look that is needed to pull off playing Jobs.
Good idea, but not for the Jobs role. He would be perfect playing a table, or a coatrack, or some other inanimate object. His acting skills definitely qualify him to play a door.
But a human...not so much.:(
20 months ago
Just as long as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross do the soundtrack I don't care who plays Steve Jobs.
20 months ago
The movie will be watched by the 25,000 Fanboys and that's it...so 99% sure it won't be a movie you spend $12 at a theater for.
Who wants to watch a movie about Steve Jobs?! Maybe a 2-hour Made For TV Special on Lifetime. And the actors and not-so-quite-factual-statements will be terrible as usual.
A 1-2 hour Biography special is probably the best bet for any kind of Jobs biography viewed on a tv.
Seemed to work when they released a movie about Zuckerberg.
[ Read All Comments ]
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ran a satirical segment (via Apple 2.0) on last night's show about Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance in front of a U.S. Senate Committee examining the tax...
Rovio's Angry Birds Space has been named Apple's App of the Week, and as a result, both the full iPhone and the iPad version of the game can be downloaded for free for the first time ever.
...
Evernote has added the ability to set reminders and alarms to its note-taking and organizational app, a popular new feature request the company says.
For the millions and millions of people around...
Shazam was one of the early App Store success stories, offering users the ability to easily identify music by capturing a snippet of the song and matching it against a database to provide title and...
Popular email app Mailbox, which launched for iPhone in early February with a reservation system that saw well over one million users sign up before the company eliminated reservations last month,...
As noted by The Verge, Microsoft has released a new Windows 8 tablet ad that uses Siri to highlight a few of the iPad's shortcomings, depicting the ASUS VivoTab Smart tablet as a robust...
Realmac's gesture-based list making iPhone app Clear has been updated to version 1.2.2, adding a feature that allows users to email their lists to other people. When viewing a list, Clear users...
In an event today at the CTIA conference, case maker OtterBox announced it was acquiring waterproof case maker LifeProof.
OtterBox will keep LifeProof's San Diego location and employees will...
