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CULVER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 – Academy Award® winning screenwriter Aaron
Sorkin will adapt Steve Jobs, a motion picture based on the best-selling
biography of the legendary Apple co-founder by award-winning journalist Walter
Isaacson, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures
Entertainment, and Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures. The project is
being produced by Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady.Published late last year, Steve Jobs was Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011. In
addition, the biography ranked #1 among bestselling hardcover books by a 2:1
margin, with sales of 2,246,569 in 2011, according to Publisher’s
Weekly.
Commenting on the announcement, Pascal said, “Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he
was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but
of all time. There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable
of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his
hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was:
captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.”AARON SORKIN won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work
on The Social Network. His other screenplays includeMoneyball, Charlie Wilson’s
War, The American President, Malice, and A Few Good Men. He has also acquired
the motion picture rights to The Politician, the best-selling book by Andrew
Young about the downfall of former Senator John Edwards. He will adapt the book
and make his directorial debut with the film, which he will also produce. For
television, Sorkin created “The West Wing,” “Sports Night,” and “Studio 60 on
the Sunset Strip.” He is currently in production on the HBO series “The
Newsroom,” which is scheduled to premiere on June 24, 2012
. For the stage, Sorkin wrote “A Few Good Men” and “Making Movies”; he returned
to Broadway in 2007 with “The Farnsworth Invention.” Sorkin will return to the
theater and make his Broadway debut as a librettist with the 2013-2014
production of “Houdini.” Based on the life of legendary magician Harry Houdini,
the musical will star Hugh Jackman and will feature music and lyrics by Oscar
and Grammy winner Stephen Schwartz.
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Sorkin vs. Kutcher….Kutcher vs. Sorkin…tough one….
I wonder how Sorkin will reflect the part of the book where Steve Jobs gave the 2005 Stanford graduating commencement. Jobs called Sorkin and asked for help in writing the speech, but Sorkin couldn’t be bothered. He didn’t return Steve’s calls. So Jobs wrote it himself, it is a true classic and better than anything Sorkin could have created. He should be ashamed.
ashamed or happy to have let one of the most quoted speech be written by jobs. anyway do you have a source (citation needed) for the refusal of sorkin?? thanks
I agree with Gabriel. And what if he did refuse? What’s wrong with somebody NOT wanting to do something?
“savvydude” you sound like a bitter writer.
That’s really too bad. Sorkin’s Moneyball, Social Network and Charlie Wilson were incredibly boring adaptations of terrific books.
Really? They’re actually three of the most intelligent and entertaining movies of the last 5 years.
Explain.
clearly you did not read any of those scripts or watch the films…
All three are boring? Either you have incredibly weird taste or you’re just making up your comments as you go along.
A heartless egomaniac? Sorkin, meet Jobs. Jobs, meet Sorkin.
I really hope this makes it into production. First, because Isaacson has written a great book about a complicated guy– perfect for Sorkin, and second, it’s a chance to cast someone with the acting chops to do Jobs justice. With the right director and cast this could be even better than The Social Network.
It has to be said: he’s the premier screenwriter of his generation.
He really is incredible. I’m interested to see what happens with “The Newsroom” because anything he does is interesting, but also because it looks like another attempt at the concept behind “Studio 60.” Except that, this looks like MUCH more fertile territory for him.
I’d also like to see him attempt a comedy again, but with someone else coming up with the concept. I’m not sure if the universe would explode by combining the genius of, say, Aaron Sorkin and Larry David, but I think it’s worth the risk.
Sorkin almost single-handedly catapulted Baldwin into another universe by writing the ‘God’ line in Malice. However, Baldwin had acting chops. This movie will suffer from AK’s casting despite the many clever, rapid-fire lines Sorkin will surely write for him. (Moneyball was another script that would have benefited from a better leading actor who could really live up to Sorkin’s writing.)
This is not the same movie as the Ashton Kutcher one…
No. In this film they hope to cast an actual actor to play Steve Jobs.
“Moneyball” was also written in part by Steve Zallian, and for me at least, it’s hard to know where his influence and where Sorkin’s influence began and ended.
Time to get Stanley Tucci on the phone. Comparing Sorkin’s adaptation to Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Jobs’ will be like comparing Apple to Acer.
Exactly! I was going to write the same comment but with Dell instead of Acer.
idiot.
Lol
Sorkin has a singular opportunity to top his source material here, since he can identify with Jobs’ creative genius far better than Isaacson, who (very) frustratingly missed it.
For example, Isaacson seemed out of his depth with the basic concepts of software and design, erroneously believing that design is mere look and feel while engineering is how it works, when in fact — as Steve himself famously said, but which Isaacson doesn’t include — “design is how it works”. Engineering is a component of design, and Isaacson fails to understand this most fundamental Steve Jobs 101 lesson.
Isaacson also fails to grasp that Apple’s success is more rooted in software than hardware, and completely dismisses the value of Apple’s acquisition of the NeXT platform, which became the foundation of the Mac and iOS. In other words, Isaacson gets pretty much the most important part of Jobs’ career wrong. (Apple would not be the most valuable company in the world without this.)
The book also glosses over the dramatic evolution Steve underwent in his NeXT/Pixar “wilderness years”, which directly led to his ability to do something the old (young) Steve Jobs couldn’t have done — transform Apple upon his return, saving it from the brink of bankruptcy and rebuilding it into the most valuable company in the world. This is a huge part of the Steve Jobs story, but Isaacson offers painfully little insight.
To be fair, Isaacson does offer a solid, perhaps definitive portrait of Jobs’ personal life. But what I (and I think audiences) crave is to understand his work and success, and here Isaacson’s book seriously missed the mark.
So I’m excited to see Sorkin take a crack at answering the question “what made Steve Jobs Steve Jobs?” I don’t think anyone’s better suited to the task.
I agree with most of your analysis. The book’s release date was moved forward from March of this year to November of last year. I never liked that they did that. 3 1/2 months is a long time in the publishing world.
Gordon, Rudin, Casaday
Interesting pairing ofnskill sets but sounds like a great producing team. This one is going to blow Kutcher out of the water.
Ashton Kutcher’s doing the TV movie, right ?
Independent film, but Sorkin makes it look like a TV movie now.
Yes! Yes, yes, yes!!! Sorkin is amazing.
Aaron Sorkin’s writing is remarkable. He knocked it out of the park with the Social Network. The first time I saw the good trailer with Radiohead’s Creep playing in the background, I got chills. Every time I watch the film, I want to rush off and rock some code out. It continues to inspire me in my work.
Miss him and the West Wing world he created. Look forward to every new project he works on.
The Ashton Kutcher project is nothing more than some indie project trying to capitalize on the Steve Jobs/Apple phenomenon. I wonder if Apple or the Jobs estate will sue. I hope that this Aaron Sorkin project gets off the ground soon.
And I’m for re-casting Noah Wyle again as Steven Jobs. He was perfect is Pirates of Silicon Valley!
Jobs was an amazing man. A visionary.But I just don’t need to see his life story
Sorkin: You may know my work from The West Wing, Sports Night, Social Network…
Liz Lemmon: Studio 60…
Sorkin: Shut up!
That book was terrible, here’s hoping the script will be better.