While the Ashton Kutcher-led JOBS came and went, Aaron Sorkin was still working on his feature film telling the story of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, based on Walter Isaacson‘s best-selling biography for Sony. Now it seems it may end as a reteaming with David Fincher who directed Sorkin’s The Social Network screenplay, which eventually won Sorkin the Oscar.
Sorkin began work on the screenplay back in The Daily Beast:
“I hope I don’t get killed by the studio for giving too much away, but this entire movie is going to be three scenes, and three scenes only. That all take place in real time. Real time is when a half hour for you in the audience is the same as a half hour for the character on the screen, there will be no time cuts and each will take place before a product launch. Backstage before a product launch. The first one being the Mac, the second one being NeXT after he had left Apple and the third one being the iPod.”
Whether that can be interpreted as a film made up of three 30 minute scenes is yet to be entirely clear, but it sounds entirely fascinating.
Sorkin added, “I don’t know if you remember the ad campaign he did… It was the ‘Think Different’ campaign. ‘Here’s to the crazy ones.’ That’s how it began. If I can end the movie with that text and that voice over… If I can earn that ending, then I will have written the movie that I wanted to write.”
While Fincher is still in early talks I really hope this reteaming comes together, even if it pretty much guarantees The Girl Who Played with Fire never actually gets made. [THR]
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