Like him or not, the late Apple founder Steve Jobs had an interesting life.  He founded a major tech company, was kicked out by the board, then came back to save the company from failure in the ultimate redemption story.  Jobs changed the way we use computers, changed the way we listen to music, and pretty much turned the tablet computer from a very niche market to a major computer sales point.  Long story short, the dude was interesting for his business exploits before you even get into his personal life.  Aaron Sorkin would be the perfect writer to handle a Steve Jobs movie, which is great because Aaron Sorkin is going to write the official Steve Jobs biopic.

Sony Pictures has hired Sorkin to adapt Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Jobs; Sorkin has previously brought drama to the White House as creator of The West Wing and turned Mark Zuckerberg and computer programming into excitement in The Social Network.  If he can turn something like Facebook into riveting, five-star cinema, he can turn Steve Jobs’s life into something as riveting and pulse-pounding as an action movie.  Sorkin is also co-creator of the upcoming HBO series The Newsroom, as well as an upcoming stage play about Harry Houdini.

Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal said of Sorkin, “No writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life.  In his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining and polarizing.”

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