Cover of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography to be filmed by writer/director Aaron Sorkin.
Aaron Sorkin, the writer who penned ?The Social Network,? about Facebook?s rise, and ?The West Wing,? will write and direct a film based on Walter Isaacson?s biography of Apple?s late co-founder Steve Jobs.
Hollywood has been hot to jump on the Jobs mania bandwagon since his death.
Ashton Kutcher?is staring in the unauthorized ?Jobs,? a different film that traces his rise to iconic status.
Sorkin will make his directing debut on the film based on Isaacson?s best bio, which sold 2.25 million books, making it the best selling hardcover of 2011.
Sorkin won an academy award for his adaption of ?The Social Network,? in 2010.
We look forward to seeing what Sorkin does with the Jobs bio. He isn?t likely to whitewash Jobs? ?less than sterling personal qualities.
Despite all the lionizing of the late Apple CEO, many of his own employees and colleagues didn?t particularly like him. Personally, we think he was as much a showman and huckster as he was a far-seeing CEO.
Yet he built Apple in the world?s richest company, so his vision cannot be denied.
Sorkin also has a summer show, ?The Newroom,? set to debut on HBO this summer. ? Allan Maurer
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