Sorkin Talks Steve Jobs Biopic Casting

Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer Aaron Sorkin recently spoke to The Independent about his upcoming project, a Steve JOBS biopic, revealing more casting news.

"It's a 181-page script, about 100 of it is that one character," says Sorkin. Speculators say that in light of Leonardo DiCaprio's having left the role, and Christian Bale following suit, Michael Fassbender will likely take up the title role, but Sorkin only said that an announcement is forthcoming.

He also revealed that Jobs' daughter Lisa will be playing the lead role in the film.

"In the case of Steve Jobs, it's the relationships he had - particularly with his daughter, Lisa - that drew me to it," he said."She didn't participate in Walter Isaacson's book, because her father was alive at the time, and she didn't want to alienate either of her parents, so I was very grateful that she was willing to spend time with me," Sorkin said. "She is the HEROINE of the movie."

Read the rest of the interview here.

Sorkin is an Academy and Emmy Award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, Moneyball, and The Newsroom.

In television, Sorkin is known as a controlling writer who rarely shares credit on his screenplays. His trademark rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues are complemented, in television, by frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme's characteristic directing technique called the "walk and talk". These sequences consist of single tracking shots of long duration involving multiple characters engaging in conversation as they move through the set; characters enter and exit the conversation as the shot continues without any cuts.

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