Aaron Sorkin considering Sony's offer to write Steve Jobs screenplay

by Steven Mostyn - Nov 24 2011, 11:51

Not that Steve Jobs is ever likely to be forgotten for his contributions to the technology industry, but reports suggest Apple’s recently deceased CEO could soon be immortalized on celluloid.

More pointedly, Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has revealed he has been approached with a view to turning the recently published Jobs biography into a Hollywood screenplay.

“Sony has asked me to write the movie and it’s something I’m strongly considering,” Sorkin told E! Online during the P.S. Arts Express Yourself event in Santa Monica.

“Right now I’m just in the thinking-about-it stages,” he teased. “It’s a really big movie and it’s going to be a great movie no matter who writes it.”

According to Sorkin, who’s best known for The Social Network and West Wing, he’s currently researching the life of Steve Jobs by immersing himself in Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography.

Although Sorkin has not yet committed himself to the project, he clearly has great respect for Jobs, describing him as “a great entrepreneur… a great artist, a great thinker.”

Jobs died in October after losing a protracted battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He was 56.

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