Aaron Sorkin Apologizes to Apple CEO for Negative Remarks About the Company

Aaron Sorkin has reevaluted some strong (and of course eloquent) remarks that he made earlier this weekend against the CEO of Apple.

BroadwayWorld previously reported that Sorkin addressed Apple CEO Tim Cook's claim made on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, that Sorkin's film, STEVE JOBS was "opportunistic."

Part of Sorkin's three-part response included the strong and poignant, "If you've got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you've got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic." Click here to see the rest of his response.

The filmmaker has now rescinded his comments and is even offering Cook an apology.

"You know what, I think that Tim Cook and I probably both went a little too far," Sorkin told E! News earlier today. "And I apologize to Tim Cook. I hope when he sees the movie, he enjoys it as much as I enjoy his products."

Check out a trailer for the film in question here, to be released Oct. 19!

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson's best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson.

Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.

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