{"id":17532,"date":"2011-11-23T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=17532"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:54:29","slug":"sorkin-strongly-considering-writing-sonys-steve-jobs-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/23\/sorkin-strongly-considering-writing-sonys-steve-jobs-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorkin ‘Strongly Considering’ Writing Sony’s Steve Jobs Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last month<\/a> it was reported that Sony Pictures had reportedly approached writer Aaron Sorkin about writing a biopic about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. And we talked about why Sorkin, who knew Jobs, might not necessarily want to take on the assignment.<\/p>\n

But in a new interview with the E! Online<\/a>, Sorkin, who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network<\/strong>, his film about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, stated –<\/p>\n

Sony has asked me to write the movie and it\u2019s something I\u2019m strongly considering. Right now I\u2019m just in the thinking-about-it stages. It\u2019s a really big movie and it\u2019s going to be a great movie no matter who writes it.<\/p>\n

He was a great entrepreneur, he was a great artist, a great thinker. He\u2019s probably inspired [my 11-year-old daughter] Roxy more than he\u2019s inspired me\u2026 she plays with all his toys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sony is developing the film having paid a reported $1 million for the rights to Walter Isaacson\u2019s best selling biography of the late technology innovator. Sorkin stated that while he hasn’t made a decision about the job he has been reading Isaacson’s book as research. And while I previously thought that Sorkin’s acquaintance with Sorkin could possibly pass on the project, it does sound as if he may take it on after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will the SOCIAL NETWORK writer take on another tech genius?<\/div>\n

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