Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died last week
Hollywood website Deadline claims the studio behind Oscar-nominated film The Social Network will pay a seven-figure sum for the feature rights to the authorised biography of Mr Jobs.
The book - simply entitled Steve Jobs - is written by former Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.
Its release is being rushed forward to October 24 - a month earlier than scheduled - following Mr Jobs' death from pancreatic cancer last week aged 56.
The biography has already hit number one on Amazon's bestseller list from pre-orders alone.
It is based on over 40 interviews with the Apple co-founder as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, competitors and colleagues.
Mr Jobs apparently asked for no control over the book and encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly.
Isaacson has previously written bestselling biographies of Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin.
Mark Gordon, who has worked on films such as Speed and Saving Private Ryan, will produce the movie version for Sony.
It will be the first film to tell Mr Jobs' story on the big screen although a TV docudrama, Pirates Of Silicon Valley, was broadcast in 1999, starring ER's Noah Wyle as Jobs.
One week after the death of Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, we didn’t stop hearing from this big event in the Business World, first because of the charisma of Jobs, and also because of the importance of Apple in Multimedia. That’s why I chose this article, found on Skynews, which tells us that Sony Pictures just bought the rights of Steve Jobs’ biography in aim to make a movie of it. Indeed, most part of people uses at least one Apple product, and to me, it is rare to consider a person as important as a brand itself.
When you see reactions on news, and moreover on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, you can tell how people have been affected by the death of Steve Jobs. So, when I read this article about a project of movie based on the life of Steve Jobs, I think we all know even before seeing the trailer, that it will be a success, not just for Sony Pictures but also for Apple.
I also think that this is typically an American idea and concept to take advantage from people who have such a success story like Steve Jobs, and who reflects in a good way the American Dream, always important to American people.
Nobody can tell if the death of Steve Jobs will affect the turnover of Apple, but there is no doubt that they will never find another person to embody the products of the brand as well as Steve Jobs did. Him and Steve Wozniak were at the beginning of Apple, but it’s hard to say that his death will be the end of such a giant as Apple.
Matthieu Demey
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