Aaron Sorkin to Write, Direct Steve Jobs Biopic for Sony Corp.

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Sony Corp.’s movie studio hired screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to give Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs the Mark Zuckerberg treatment.

Sorkin will write and direct the film, based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, Culver City, California-based Sony Pictures Entertainment said yesterday in a statement. The screenwriter won an Academy Award for his adaptation of “The Social Network,” the 2010 Sony film that chronicled the early years of Facebook Inc. under founder Mark Zuckerberg.