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Aaron Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson‘s biography of Steve Jobs for Sony, the studio announced on Tuesday.

Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady are producing the biopic, which is based on Isaacson’s widely hailed book. The biography of the late Apple co-founder and CEO ruled the charts for months, selling faster than any book since George W. Bush‘s memoir, “Decision Points.”

Sony bought the rights back in October before it even hit the shelves, anticipating that it would become a must-read. Simon Schuster, the book’s publisher, moved up the release date after the death of Pixar’s former chief.

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Sony has now tapped Sorkin, known for snappy dialogue and high-minded writing, to interpret the world and mind of the notoriously prickly but brilliant Jobs.

“Steve Jobs‘ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time,” Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures, said in a statement. “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.”

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Sorkin’s last film was the Oscar-nominated “Moneyball,” which he adapted from Michael Lewis’ best-selling novel after an initial draft by Steve Zaillian. A year earlier, Sorkin won best adapted screenplay for “The Social Network.”

Other credits include “A Few Good Men,” “The West Wing” and “American President.”

His latest project is “The Newsroom,” a series that will take viewers inside the TV news business. Starring Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer, it debuts on HBO June 24. 

This is the highest profile in a series of Jobs-related films. Ashton Kutcher will star as the Silicon Valley king in an independent film dubbed “Jobs,” while Magnolia opened “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview,” a documentary, in select theaters May 11.

Gordon runs Mark Gordon Productions, Rudin tops Scott Rudin productions and Casady is a partner at management 360.

Five Star Feature Films has confirmed that the movie chronicling the life of Steve Jobs will film early scenes in the actual Los Altos home where Jobs grew up, including the garage where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer.

Starring Ashton Kutcher as the Silicon Valley visionary, jOBS will depict “Steve Jobs’ most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him.”

The producers have confirmed that the film will span the most defining 30 years of Jobs’ life, “from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that.”

On the newly launched web site, thejobsmovie.com, it is said that Mark Hulme and Five Star Feature Films immediately launched the production after Jobs’ retirement in August 2011.

Matt Whiteley, the screenwriter, is said to have developed the most truthful and gripping picture of Jobs’ life, after employing a team of expert researchers based on months of research and interviews with Steve Jobs’ friends, colleagues, and mentors.

“jOBS chronicles the 30 most defining years of Steve Jobs’ life, as seen through his, colleagues’, and friends’ eyes,” reads the synopsis.

“Dark, honest, and uncompromising, jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs’ life.”

“A rousing narrative of this business and tech icon, jOBS pulls no punches and does not speculate, telling only the candid and captivating account of the life of Steven Paul Jobs,” says Five Star Feature Films.

Represented by Creative Artists Agency, jOBS will be released in late fall 2012.

 jOBS, which chronicles the life of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, starts filming in June, it was announced today. The movie is one of two Steve Jobs projects in the works, the other being Sony Pictures’ Steve Jobs, which will be written by Aaron Sorkin. Here’s the press release on the Ashton Kutcher-starrer jOBS:

The film chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. co-founder and charismatic master of innovation, begins principal photography in June and in keeping with the project’s commitment to accuracy and authenticity, will film early scenes in the actual Los Altos home where Jobs grew up and in the historic garage where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple.



Titled jOBS, the biopic stars Ashton Kutcher as the iconic Silicon Valley visionary, and will shed new light on Steve Jobs’ most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him. The film covers Jobs from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that.

Executive producer Mark Hulme and Five Star Feature Films launched the production immediately following Jobs’ retirement in August 2011.

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Screenwriter Matt Whiteley, while penning the script, utilized a team of expert researchers based on months of exhaustive research and interviews with Steve Jobs’ friends, colleagues, and mentors to develop the most truthful and gripping picture of Jobs’ life.

From director Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas), and Oscar winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter (Titanic), jOBS details the major moments and defining characters that influenced Steve Jobs on a daily basis from 1971 through 2000.



jOBS chronicles the 30 most defining years of Steve Jobs’ life, as seen through his, colleagues’, and friends’ eyes. Dark, honest, and uncompromising, jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs’ life.

A rousing narrative of this business and tech icon, jOBS pulls no punches and does not speculate, telling only the candid and captivating account of the life of Steven Paul Jobs.
The film is represented by Creative Artists Agency.



jOBS will be released in late fall 2012. For more information go to TheJobsmovie.com.