
If this feels like it isn’t the first time you’re hearing about Aaron Sorkin maybe possibly writing a Steve Jobs biopic, it’s because it isn’t. The news first hit last month, when Jobs’ corpse was still warm, when Sony paid a million dollars for Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography. After that, Aaron Sorkin famously told Isaacson that “a million dollars isn’t cool.” Okay, not really, but word was, Sony wanted Aaron Sorkin to adapt Isaacson’s book, presumably because he did such great work on Sony’s 
“Sony has asked me to write the movie and it’s something I’m strongly considering,” Sorkin told E! Online on Monday, Nov. 21 at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself event. “Right now I’m just in the thinking-about-it stages,” he said. “It’s a really big movie and it’s going to be a great movie no matter who writes it.”
“It doesn’t matter who writes it, you could hire a beagle in a tux.” Anyway, this next part of Hollywood Reporter’s piece is neither here nor there, but holy sh*t, you guys.
Following the news of Sony’s acquisition, The Hollywood Reporter asked veteran casting director Sharon Bialy who could embody Jobs in his older and younger years. Her suggestions: Ashton Kutcher, Andrew Garfield or Shia LeBeouf for young Jobs, and Keanu Reeves, Ralf Fiennes or Noah Wyle for older Jobs. [THR]
Let’s just stop and think for a second and try to imagine the world’s foremost visionary computer innovator being portrayed by ASHTON KUTCHER AND KEANU REEVES. I’m glad they identified her as a “veteran casting director,” because I’m pretty sure you could ask a schizophrenic vagrant in the midst of a Thunderbird freakout and get a better answer than Ashton Kutcher and Keanu Reeves. It might not make sense, but it’d make more sense than that.
In any case, something about this idea makes me hate it. It’s strange, if you asked me what I thought of Aaron Sorkin, I’d probably say that he’s a great writer, but the idea of him writing another biopic of a public figure feels like asking Kenny G to host a C-Span convention. The Social Network was impressive for making a slick, Hollywood flawed-hero story out of what was probably incredibly uninteresting in real life, and even sort of forgave itself for its slickness by being told through the memory of one of the characters. Moneyball was even slicker and cheesier, and I’m worried that if Aaron Sorkin continues down this path, his Jobs biopic is just going to be two hours of the Jobs character on his deathbed, being moved to tears as he watches his estranged daughter’s piano recital on an iPad while critics throw roses at the screen.



If there’s one thing Steve Jobs and I had in common, it’s the certainty that Charlie Wilson’s War blew. If there’s two things, it would have to be our refusal to acknowledge paternity of our bastard daughters.
Michael Cera and Patton Oswalt or GET THE FUCK OUT.
Other than Julia Roberts…. I liked Charlie Wilson’s war. (*ducks tomato*)
The tough part for Sorkin to write will be the end, when Jobs won’t be able to speedwalk and rapidly dispense pithy witicisms at the same time. Also–tough to work in references to the Ivy League and Gilbert & Sullivan.
After hearing those ideas, The Mighty Feklahr bets that Sorkin didn’t even wait for Bialy to leave the room before he started “crushing her head”.
When asked who would be perfect to play the lead role in a Kimbo Slice biopic, Sharon Bialy answered, “Edward Furlong.”
Other than that one thing, Jackie Kennedy had a great time in Dallas. (*ducks bullet*)
*:(
Tom Hanks playing a womanizer is like Keanu playing a genius. Tom Hank AIN’T GET HIS FUCK ON.
/except in Volunteers. Underrated.
As an Apple fanboy, this excites me. The Social Network but with a main character who invented stuff that wasn’t irritating as shit? I’m already in the theater.
Although there won’t be many walking and talking scenes near the end of the movie…
*single Apple iTear rolls down cheek, $5 app now available for iPhone*
If, during a montage of Apple sales going through the roof, they don’t play Mark Morrison’s classic, “Return of the Mack/Mac,” I’m going write a letter.
@Assmode–re: walk ‘n talk–I consider the dickstep the sincerest form of dongsquish.
Mags Gyllenhaal as a young Bill Gates!
Fun fact: When searching for how to spell Gyllenhaal, the third search option that pops up on Google is “Maggy Gyllenhaal ugly.”
iDontcare
I read LaBwaaf as one of the contenders, now I can’t stop thinking of that Asian chick from
FACEBOOK: THE MOVIEThe Social Network setting fire to his silk scarf while he’s still wearing it. It’s a regular chucklefest over here, hold my callsAt least that veteran casting director had the time to copy Pirates of Silicon Valley with the Noah Wiley choice. And people said unoriginality was dead in Hollywood*
*No one said that.
Don’t you think you’re seriously overlooking the huge potential for dramatic tension that the Steve Jobs story provides? Just consider the controversy which surrounded Apple’s decision to abandon the Motorola 680×0 chip architecture in 1994, favoring the then-radical RISC-based PowerPC platform… this made Jobs’ return to the company a couple years later all the more unlikely to succeed.
The story arc practically writes itself!
Oh yes, let’s give Ashton Kutcher MORE work.
The guy was a complete fucking cock sucker. The End.
‘Veteran casting director Sharon Bialy’ seems to have been casting the Bialy, Stock, & Bloom adaptation.