Sony Hires Steve Wozniak to Consult on Steve Jobs Biopic

With not one but two movies currently in production about the life of Steve Jobs, Apple fans are rightfully wringing their hands wondering if the iconic co-founder's life will be told properly. We'd place our bets on Sony's version, which now carries the distinction of having Apple's other co-founder as a consultant.

Reuters is reporting that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is hard at work adapting Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography on the life of Steve Jobs into a major motion picture for Sony, and now he has a little help from an old friend: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Even though Woz (as he's known to Apple devotees) hasn't worked for the company since 1987, he remained in contact with Jobs until his death last year. Between this and his intimate knowledge of Apple's products, he makes a perfect candidate to act as a "tutor" for the film and its creators.

Sorkin, whose adaptation of the Facebook story The Social Network earned him an Oscar, hasn't quite figured out the key "element of tension" that will be at the center of the new film, but told reporters this week that it won't be a straight biography.

"I know so little about what I am going to write," Sorkin confessed. "I know what I am not going to write. It can't be a straight ahead biography because it's very difficult to shake the cradle-to-grave structure of a biography."

Sorkin points to his adaptation of the book The Accidental Billionaires, which recounted the lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends after the social network launched.

"Drama is tension versus obstacle," Sorkin explains. "Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia -- doesn't matter... And I need to find that event and I will. I just don't know what it is."

The screenwriter is busy at the moment launching his new HBO show The Newsroom, but plans to "turn his full attention" to Jobs in late June.

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