Aaron Sorkin: Making a Movie About Steve Jobs Is Like Writing About the Beatles
Don’t expect a cradle-to-grave depiction of Steve Jobs’s life from Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming movie.
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You can spot a Sorkin project at 20 paces -- the snappy, overlapping dialogue, the whip-smart characters and the up-to-the moment political topicality. He’s been bringing his award-winning style to the stage, television and movies since “A Few Good Men” debuted on Broadway. His adapted screenplay for the Facebook movie “The Social Network” garnered him an Oscar. Next up for Sorkin is a Broadway musical of Houdini’s life starring Hugh Jackman and a new TV series called “The Newsroom.” As if that weren’t enough, apparently he has always wanted to direct: “The Politician,” the rise and fall of former Senator John Edwards, will mark Sorkin’s adapter/producer/director trifecta.
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Steve Jobs Movie Slammed by Critics — And Woz
Judging by the reviews for “Jobs,” many people will hope for more from Aaron Sorkin’s planned film about the former Apple CEO.Sports Night Redux
The worst part of the Super Bowl blackout is the inevitable episode of Newsroom that Sorkin will write.
— From Gerry Duggan via Twitter
Amazon’s “West Wing” Exclusive Could Be Very Short
Amazon, Netflix and Hulu try hard to distinguish catalogs that can look quite similar. Here’s one way to do it.Hey Internet Girl: Aaron Sorkin’s TV News 2.0 Show Gets a Second Season (Video)
“The Newsroom” survives the Internet ice age.Hey, Internet Girl
Listen here, Internet girl. It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.
— Aaron Sorkin, during a tense interview with Sarah Nicole Pickett of the Toronto Globe and Mail. His comments have spawned a site on Tumblr.