Sam Oliver
Sony has asked Sorkin to write the movie, it's an offer that he's currently weighing, he confirmed in a conversation with E! Online. He called him a "great artist" and "great thinker."
"Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," he reportedly said. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it."
Rumors that Sorkin was asked to write the movie first surfaced last month, when it was said that he was the top choice for Sony. At the time, it was said that Sorkin was considering the project, but this week's comments by the screenwriter are the first official confirmation.
Sorkin tackled Silicon Valley in the film The Social network, an adapted screenplay based on the story of Mark Zuckerberg and his founding of Facebook. The movie earned Sorkin an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
Before the biography even went on sale to the public, Sony acquired the movie rights to Walter Isaacson's authorized take on the life of Jobs. The book has already gone on to become one of the best selling books of the year.
Previous films by Sorkin include Moneyball, The American President, and Charlie Wilson's War. He also worked on the TV shows The West Wing and Sports Night.
As for who might take on the role of Jobs, last week a rumor claimed that George Clooney and Noah Wyle were both in contention to play the Apple co-founder in Sony's big-screen adaptation. Wyle already played Jobs once in the 1999 TV movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley," which also featured Joey Slotnick playing Apple's Steve Wozniak.
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So in the movie, everyone has to talk really fast, preferably while walking very fast down some corridors...
One of our greatest American screenwriters wants to write the movie about one of our greatest Americans?
Sold, American.
One of our greatest American screenwriters wants to write the movie about one of our greatest Americans?
Sold, American.
If Aaron Sorkin was one of my country's "greatest screenwriters," I would be ashamed.
He is a workman like guy who does a good job with pseudo-historical re-enactment drama.
None of his movies and shows are anything special. They aren't bad, but they aren't Oscar material or anything.
In the 70's he'd be the guy penning all those "movies of the week" on whatever the issue of the day was at the time.
If Aaron Sorkin was one of my country's "greatest screenwriters," I would be ashamed.
He is a workman like guy who does a good job with pseudo-historical re-enactment drama.
None of his movies and shows are anything special. They aren't bad, but they aren't Oscar material or anything.
In the 70's he'd be the guy penning all those "movies of the week" on whatever the issue of the day was at the time.
When you grew up and decided you didn't want to work in the movies. Well. All I'm saying is, Thanks.
When you grew up and decided you didn't want to work in the movies. Well. All I'm saying is, Thanks.
The right punctuation would make this make sense. Just a suggestion.