After seeing Ashton Kutcher walk around on set pretending to be Steve Jobs, I really started to hope that someone at Sony Pictures would finally get going on the Steve Jobs project that has been rumoured. The studio had picked up the rights to the best-selling biography by Walter Isaacson with the goal to bring it to the big screen days after the Apple co-founder’s passing on October 5th, 2011 for a $1 million. The rumour was that West Wing and Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin was going to pen the screenplay. Brilliant choice as there really is only one person who can aptly transfer Isaacson’s words to the big screen while still capturing Jobs properly.

And then nothing.

Well, I guess Sorkin finally finished reading the book as the wait is over. Sony just sent out a press release announcing the Oscar-Winning writer is now officially on board and the project is moving forward with him writing the script.

Full details below however as a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin and an equally huge fan of Steve Jobs, I am to the moon excited for this project to happen.

And now let the “who will play Steve Jobs?” lottery begin.

Oh Look! A Press Release:

AARON SORKIN TO ADAPT “STEVE JOBS” FOR SONY PICTURES
–Film to be Based on Walter Isaacson’s Best Selling Biography of Late Apple Co-Founder-

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 include Moneyball, 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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