Sony Pictures acquires rights to Steve Jobs biopic

Sony Pictures has successfully bid for the rights to turn Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs into a motion picture. Deadline reports the deal is worth between one to three million dollars and headed by producer Mark Gordon. Deadline suspects bidding had already been taking place for film rights, but recent events have intensified interest.

Sony Pictures is responsible for the Oscar-winning film The Social Network, a semi-biographical account of Mark Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook. Even though Sony Pictures has apparently secured film rights, any film version of Steve Jobs is likely to be years away from seeing release in theatres, which may slightly help alleviate the turmoil some of us might feel at the news of this film coming so soon after his death.

Pirates of Silicon Valley, another semi-biographical film portraying a young Steve Jobs, debuted on TNT in 1999. Needless to say, there's a lot of Steve Jobs's life that movie couldn't have covered. As long as the film version of Steve Jobs is handled tastefully and with dignity (and isn't released while all of our emotions are still raw), it's got my support.

Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs will be released October 24.

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Talkdj

Who will play the "Young, in the garage building the Apple 1 with Woz" Steve????

Ashton Kutcher (I'm not a a fan of his, but I bet he would be fabulous)

October 10 2011 at 10:28 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

Imran Ali

Bring back Noah Wyle… http://www.fakesteve.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/267675.1020.A.jpg

October 09 2011 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott David Hamilton

To say Pirates didn't cover some important stuff is an understatement. The whole point of that movie is that Bill Gates won, using the image of him appearing onscreen at MacWorld Expo to drive it home. Twelve years later, things look very different. In retrospect, Jobs put one past Microsoft with the 1998 agreement.

October 09 2011 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

markerik2000

Pirates of Silicon Valley is about all the biopic I need. It was done well and accurately. Anything else would wind up like Patch Adams.

October 09 2011 at 2:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Blacklily Orchard

so much for it being a true story

October 08 2011 at 10:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James Winder

I basically agree with what you're saying in this article. I don't have a problem with another movie being made about Steve but they certainly should wait a while. I'm genuinely surprised at how sad his passing has made me and I know for certain there are many many others who feel just the same. I'd also want the movie to be tasteful and accurate and done with the full consent of Steve's family and close friends.

October 08 2011 at 6:57 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

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Steve Mougeotte

I am genuinely surprised as well.

I have yet to read the Time article(s) for that reason. Maybe this week.

October 09 2011 at 9:38 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

tnydigiaco

Although I haven't read the bio, I think even a film of three hours might not cover his life and achievements fairly. A mini series on a network like HBO or Showtime would do the trick.

October 08 2011 at 6:21 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply