Sorkin Says 'Steve Jobs' Movie Won't Be a Straight Ahead Biography

Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says the he won't write the Steve Jobs movie as a straight ahead biography, reports Reuters.

"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 told reporters at a news conference for his upcoming HBO drama "The Newsroom."


He noted that the script he wrote for "The Social Network" saw the Facebook tale through the eyes of a lawsuit that pitted Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends.

"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," Sorkin said.

He plans to turn his full attention to the movie after launching "The Newsroom" in late June.

Interestingly, he also revealed the Steve Wozniak has been hired to consult on the technical aspects of computers and on Steve Jobs himself.


[via Renee]