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Hollywood studios is wasting no time in bringing the life story of "Apple" founder - Steve Jobs to the wide screen
Just days after the Apple co-founder’s death, Sony Pictures is in negotiations to pick up the screen rights to Steve Jobs, the authorized biography written by Walter Isaacson. But the famous producer, Mark Gordon, tapped to produce Steve Jobs biography for MG360, the film production partnership between Gordon and Management 360 too. Gordon is also reps Isaacson
Gordon is a veteran producer whose feature credits range from Speed to Saving Private Ryan to Source Code. In recent years, he has become one of TV’s biggest players, exec producing shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds and Private Practice. Sony would not confirm details. Sony has a recent tech biopic, The Social Network, under its belt which went home with 3 Oscars this year. Isaacson is the former managing editor of Time and the author of previous best-sellers about Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger. He was reportedly given complete access to Jobs, even getting a personal tour of the technocrat’s childhood home. The book was scheduled to be released by Simon & Schuster Nov. 21 but has been moved up by almost a month to Oct. 24. In the day after Job’s death, the book’s pre-sales increased by 42,000 percent since Apple announced Jobs’ death: it moved from No. 424 to No. 1 on Amazon’s overall sales rankings. Billed as the only authorized biography, Steve Jobs is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, colleagues, and competitors.
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