The script Aaron Sorkin is crafting for a film about Steve Jobs will be comprised of just three scenes, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter said Thursday.
The scenes will all take place backstage before three of Jobs’ most important product launches: the original Macintosh; NeXT, which was the start-up Jobs created after leaving Apple; and the iPod.
Zzzzzzzzz … suddenly the Ashton Kutcher-starring Steve Jobs movie is beginning to sound a lot more interesting. Sorkin has an opportunity to surface interesting details about Jobs, and he chose to focus on the three parts of the story everyone knows? Considering the details he has from the Isaacson book, the formative years would have made much more interesting than this. This is a guy who didn’t use deodorant for like 30 years! He disowned his daughter just as he was becoming famous! He ate nothing but fruit! There’s got to be better uses of 90 minutes than a “24”-style behind-the-scenes piece, which basically sounds like a tech-company recreation of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” because that’s this guy’s comfort zone.
Insanely great news — but expectations will be through the roof post-The Social Network.
Dear David Fincher: Call Aaron. Now.
Here’s a mockup of the Web site for Atlantis Cable News, the fictional network at the center of Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming HBO show, “The Newsroom” (no relation to the ’90s Canadian dramedy of the same name). The show, starring Jeff Daniels and Jane Fonda, will be a bit of a harkening back to past Sorkin shows, taking a similar approach to “Sports Night” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” but applying it to an MSNBC/Fox News-style cable news network. Will be fun to watch. (h/t Poynter)
Steve Jobs’ death: Noah Wyle’s comeback ticket? Since leaving “ER,” the erstwhile “Pirates of Silicon Valley” co-star, shown above in full Steve Jobs mode, has mostly been stuck in a bit of a rut as a star of numerous TNT-based TV movies and shows. OK, maybe you’re a fan of “The Librarian” franchise; don’t take offense. But if Steve Jobs gets the rumored Aaron Sorkin treatment, and Wyle’s tapped to star, it’s back to the A-List with him. Only problem: The guy he’s rumored to be competing against for the elusive Steve Jobs biopic role? George Clooney. That’s right, Wyle’s former “ER” costar who probably lost his number around the time that “Oceans Seven” came out. (Editor’s Note: There is no “Oceans Seven.”) For Noah’s sake, if the rumors are true, we hope he kicks Clooney’s ass.
His first Oscar nomination and win? I’m genuinely surprised.
But he totally deserved it this time. And that’s all that matters.
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