Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his screenplay on Facebook film The Social Network and created TV drama 'The West Wing', said on Thursday that he would be looking for an element of tension or an obstacle in Steve Job's life on which to hang the movie.
Movie studio Sony Pictures announced on tuesday that Sorkin would adapt Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the enigmatic genius behind the iPod and the iPhone. Jobs, 56, died in October after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.
"I know so little about what I am going to write. I know what I am not going to write. It can't be a straight ahead biography because it's very difficult to shake the cradle-to-grave structure of a biography, "Sorkin told Reuters in an interview for his upcoming HBO drama 'The Newsroom'.
Sorkin noted that 'The Social Network' saw the Facebook story through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of the social media network....
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11:36 AM, May 19, 2012
New York: Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn't yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain its not going to be a straightforward biography. Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of Facebook film 'The Social Network' and created TV drama 'The West Wing', said on Thursday he would be looking for an element of tension or an...
11:49 PM, May 18, 2012
Los Angeles: Steve Jobs' life will be brought to the big screen by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a movie based on Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the enigmatic co-founder of Apple, maker of iPods and iPads. Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday unveiled plans to put Sorkin, who wrote Facebook film 'The Social Network', behind the screenplay of what will be a major release for the movie studio. "There is...
07:13 PM, May 16, 2012
