Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady will produce the film for Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Apple co-founder died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. "Steve Jobs' story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time. There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining and polarizing," Sony Pictures Amy Pascal said in a statement.
Sorkin ("A Few Good Men," "The Newsroom," The Farnsworth Invention) is also at work on the upcoming Broadway musical Houdini, a vehicle for Hugh Jackman, which has a score by fellow Academy Award winner Stephen Schwartz (Wicked).
