Sony Pictures close to deal for feature film rights to Steve Jobs biography

By on Oct 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Celebrities October 7, 2011

Sony Pictures is working on a deal to acquire the rights to Steve Jobs’s biography for a feature film, BGR sister site Deadline reported on Friday. The highly anticipated authorized biography Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacsson is due for release on October 24th, and Sony Pictures is reportedly making a substantial offer for the motion picture rights. ”I’m hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the producer,” Mike Fleming wrote on Deadline. Sony Pictures is thought to be a good fit for the project following its work on business book turned feature film Moneyball and the Oscar-nominated The Social Network. If the studio manages to work out a deal, this would be only the second film to chronicle Jobs’s career, the first being Pirates Of Silicon Valley.

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  • Anonymous

    Maybe they can get the guy that played Skeletor on Masters of the Universe to play him!

    • Anonymous

      What a dick…

    • Iamguest

      I hope you get cancer , and your family too

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VCBEBTYM2XLKT7WBH4OWJ5QUZ4 commonsenseplease

        You’re sick Iamguest.

    • Jon

      That is seriously not funny.

    • Keymaker

      Dude you should seriously get ban, cancer is no joke son, love him or hate him.

      • Anonymous

        Who’s ban?

  • http://www.allegrotechie.blogspot.com Allegrotechie

    If they can pull this off, it’s gonna be amazing

    • Anonymous

      What the hell are you talking about? Stupid bitch!

      • http://www.allegrotechie.blogspot.com Allegrotechie

        Umm?

      • Anonymous

        LMAO I don’t know why but that just literally made me crack the fu*k up at the randomness of it!

  • Anonymous

    Score one for Noah Wyle. 

  • Anonymous

    This will be bigger than titanic, the dark knight and avatar combined. Guaranteed greatest movie ever. I’m gonna see it 100 times  true story™©®

    • Anonymous

      Yeah I’m sure you’ll be in the front row with Butt plug shoved up your ass and couple of your gay buddies like Louis Louis, bringit, and Allegrotechie playing circle jerk on a cracker in the middle of the movie theater

  • Anonymous

    First! Booooyah!!!

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if the film will be edited in Final Cut Pro X?

    • Anonymous

      Most of them are nowadays.

    • Anonymous

      No I’m sure they’ll refuse to use that and make it on Final Cut Pro 5 instead

  • Uncannyzebra

    Anything to make a buck.

  • Icfreely

    Strike while the corpse is still warm.  Can they lay the guy to rest first before talking about a movie?

  • Anonymous

    Exactly why I hate Apple… please.

  • http://twitter.com/AngstKeiner AngstKeiner

    The man’s not even cold yet and already the Vultures are circling!

  • fishkid13

    I hope they’re respectful about it…

  • Anonymous

    Personally, I was hoping for a Disney Pixar Animated movie.

    • Anonymous

      +1 Toy Story

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4QXW6TAAXYCQMS7A7WLXGIK36U D M

    It could be very good. But please DO IT RIGHT! And make it a bit long. Don’t try to put it all in 90 min are two Hrs. You will need about 3 are so to do it right. 

    Noha  Wyle.  Will be a great start. 

  • Anonymous

    This is not right and its to early for shit like this,he didn’t have his funeral yet. Just goes to show who don’t have respect for his passing.

    • http://profiles.google.com/mordikar.nykae Justin Hart

      no different than michael jackson …  One day he’s a has been that no one would even admit listening to because he was a repeatedly accused and suspected child molester. The day after he died he was the “greatest musical talent that ever lived” with a movie, new cd, and full box set of all is previous work selling like crack. Welcome to the new low of todays media industry, where even the most obscure celebrity death will be treated as a mass marketing campaign using emotion to fleece the masses. 

  • Steve_Jobs_Love_Child

    Noah Whiley played him once. He can easily play him again!

  • Chuckmoehow

    He isn’t even in the ground yet and people are trying to get paid.  Damn shame.

  • http://zedomax.com/blog zedomax

    Did someone just yell, “Hey someone famous died, LETS MAKE MONEY OFF HIS DEAD BODY!” ???

    Wow, they couldn’t wait a week after he died, so damn greedy, I am not watching this obviously.

    • Bringit

      They (including Steve Jobs) have been working on this book for a very long time, you idiot.

  • No

    Too soon

  • Vbjedimaster

    Aaron Zorkin needs to be involved after the masterpiece he did with The Social Network.

  • Anonymous

    Why would SONY make a movie bout JOBS?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VCBEBTYM2XLKT7WBH4OWJ5QUZ4 commonsenseplease

    Will it include the part where he suspended Apple’s philanthropic programs and never reinstated them even after Apple amassed more money than the US treasury?

    How about the part where he was horrible and rude to employees?  I especially like the part where Woz is the one who actually created and invented.  Steve was a great marketer, no more no less.  People act as if he was in the lab writing code and engineering the devices Apple makes.  

    Or maybe it will be about his working so hard he neglected his kids?  What a nice guy.

    • Anonymous

      Steve was a visionary, not an engineer. He directed people to where he saw the future heading, and helped shape it.

      A brilliant general isn’t on the front lines firing bullets.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mordikar.nykae Justin Hart

    And then at the end, after 3 days Steve’s tombstone will roll away and the almighty will ascend to the heaves again with flights of CGI rendered angels …..

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