There are plenty of reasons to be excited about Sony Pictures’ take on the life of Steve Jobs, starting out with the movie being based on the former Apple CEO’s biography by Walter Isaacson. While having a great source is a good place to start a film adaptation, the writer and director at the end of the day are the ones who truly bring that vision to fruition. Luckily for Sony Pictures, they’ve been able to snatch up their long time collaborator, Aaron Sorkin, who wrote Oscar winners The Social Network and Moneyball, as the film’s writer. Besides his film work, Sorkin is also known for creating TV drama The West Wing. After the jump, Sorkin reveals how he plans to bring the iconic CEO to life on the big screen.

So how does Sorkin plan to bring Steve Jobs life to the bring screen? In the same manner as he approached The Social Network, which delved into the life of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

 “I know so little about what I am going to write. I know what I am not going to write. It can’t be a straight ahead biography because it’s very difficult to shake the cradle-to-grave structure of a biography, “ 

Sorkin goes on to say that what made The Social Network work wasn’t the story about Facebook was born but the story Facebook through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of website.

 “Drama is tension versus obstacle. Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia – doesn’t matter … And I need to find that event and I will. I just don’t know what it is,” 

Sony Pictures is also leaning on another big name, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, to help tutor film producers and Sorkin. Wozniak will most notably help with event accuracy and proper portrayal of the technology used by Jobs and his company throughout Apple’s rise. Here’s hoping that Sony can also snatch up another long time collaborator, director David Finch, who most recently directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Social Network for Sony Pictures.

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