Aaron Sorkin has shared a few more details about the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic. During an interview with The Independent, Sorkin said that while there hasn’t been any official word on who will play the lead role, there will be an announcement very soon.
The Independent, via MacRumors:
Leonardo DiCaprio and, more recently, Christian Bale, pulled out, the latter because of the sheer demands of the role: “It’s a 181-page script, about 100 of it is that one character,” says Sorkin. The frontrunner is now believed to be Michael Fassbender. Sorkin, today, can confirm only that an announcement is imminent.
Sorkin also shared that the film – which will focus on three 30-minute scenes showing Jobs backstage before the announcements for the Mac, NeXT, and the iPod – will also feature the character of Jobs’ daughter Lisa. She will play a major role, as the “heroine” of the film. Lisa Brennan Jobs, who declined to contribute to the Walter Isaacson biography of her father, has worked with Sorkin on the screenplay of the film.
Jobs initially denied that he was Lisa’s father, although they later reconnected and she lived with him during her teen years. “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,” says Sorkin. “She is the heroine of the movie.”
