Well if you want to make a good tech movie, get hold of someone who's written one already. Sony is trying to secure the writer of The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin, to pen the screenplay for the movie of Steve Jobs' life, reports The Next Web.
Sorkin is said to be considering the project but is yet to make a decision. Both Sony and Sorkin's representatives have declined to comment.
As well as The Social Network, Sorkin wrote Moneyball, which also featured a smart figure with bags of business acumen, but who was notoriously difficult to deal with. Sorkin is only one of the writers being courted by producers, but is said to be high on their wish list. The Social Network did win three Academy Awards after all, including Best Adapted Screenplay.
Jobs also personally asked Sorkin to write a movie for Pixar, his animated movie studio, but he refused, saying he couldn't "make inanimate objects talk." Jobs replied, "Once you make them talk they won't be inanimate," but Sorkin stuck to his guns, saying he didn't "know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies," he continued, "and she'll turn cartwheels if I tell her I'm writing one and I don't want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar."
Noah Wyle, who played Jobs in the 1999 made-for-TV film Pirates of Silicon Valley, said he would love to reprise his role. "Are you kidding?' he said. "I would give my eye teeth, in the heartbeat, of a New York minute. There are certain roles you wish you could tackle over and over again. That's one for me."
Who else should star in the movie? We'll start you off -- David Blaine for Jony Ive. Let us know your casting suggestions on our Facebook page.
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KaneFulton 25 October, 2011 17:16
*brain explodes*
I loved The Social Network and I rather like Apple too. Larry David for the part?
anonymous 25 October, 2011 17:36
Visionaries like Steve Jobs reveal the true secret to the Universe in that nothing is impossible with time, perseverance, and positive visualization. Such a passion for furthering human communication inspires. His legacy will survive generations with names like Edison, Tesla as the greatest inventors and visionaries of all time. As an artist, I draw from these inspirations and advancements in my work and you may enjoy my recent portrait of Mr. Jobs, now In Memoriam at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/end-of-era-steve-jobs.html
anonymous 25 October, 2011 17:42
You must be SERIOUSLY deluded to compare him to the likes of Edison and Tesla
Jobs was just a shrewd businessman and was good at repackaging existing ideas and inventions, thats it
He in no way was an inventor or scientist like the 2 you mentioned
Dean Shepherd 25 October, 2011 19:53
Yea I gotta admit, he wasn't a visionary in any way really, it was the likes of Ives who designed his products and lost out on credit most of the time.<br />
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While he repackaged things very well, hell I myself had an ipod and loved it, he made the mp3 player more easier to use and nicer looking, although I did used to love the look of the Rios that were out then. He never invented the 'smartphone'either as most people, especially apple lovers enjoy in saying. What he did do again was make the archaic looking smartphones of then (nokia n series, blackberrys, windows 6 series etc) look better with the iphone. That said it did push windows to create a better system now with wp7, it also gave rise to competition from Android as well.<br />
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Job's at the end of the day was a businessman who wanted to make money, he didn't ultimately want to give anything really useful or with substance to the populace, just save creating a new shiny gadget for the tech lovers of this day and age to buy a hundred times over.<br />
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Now some can argue this is ultimately the drive behind most inventors as well, but the difference is, most inventors gave us something to benefit mankind...last time I checked ipod's weren't really a benefit but a luxury.<br />
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And no I'm not ragging on apple, I actually love the ipod and have owned an iphone and enjoyed using it alot, I'm just a little fed up with seeing all this "sun shines out of his ***" kinda stuff lately and about Job's being the most important man it seems in history, as I read the other day quoted from the book that he was the reason for bill clinton coming clean with everyone bout the monika lewinsky affair....now if that isn't ego or anything.