Sony has again got in touch with the director and screenwriter pair of The Social Network. They will adapt Steve Jobs’ life into a film just like they did with Mark Zuckerberg’s. David Fincher would be the director again, Aaron Sorkin the script writer, and Scott Rudin the producer. The story is to be based on the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, the rights of which to adapt into a film were acquired by Sony shortly after the death of Apple’s founder.

Sorkin envisages that the film would consist of three parts, and each of them would take place before the launch of an important Apple product. The first such product is the Mac computer, the second is the NeXT software while the third is the first iPod. The screenwriter says that writing about Jobs is like writing about the Beatles because there are so many people who knew him and could tell stories.

It is still uncertain when shooting the film would begin, but the studio attaches high hopes to the project even though the first Jobs film entitled Jobs (with Ashton Kutcher cast in the lead role) was an absolute failure. However, Sony is convinced that the Fincher-Sorkin pair is a guarantee for success. Moreover, the screenplay is being written on the basis of the only biography that was authorised as official by Jobs himself.