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Aaron Sorkin to pen Steve Jobs biopic

Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple, with the Oscar-winning writer to pen a screenplay based on the Steve Jobs biography
Aaron Sorkin, an Oscar-winner for his screenplay for The Social Network, will pen the script for a forthcoming biopic about Apple founder Steve Jobs. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is going from Facebook to Apple.

Sony Pictures officials say the Oscar-winning writer will pen a screenplay based on the Steve Jobs biography.

Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal says Sorkin will make the film about the late Apple founder "everything that Jobs himself was: Captivating, entertaining and polarizing."

The film will be 'everything that Jobs himself was: Captivating, entertaining and polarizing,' said Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal. (Paul Sakuma, File/Associated Press)

Sorkin won the adapted screenplay Academy Award for 2010's The Social Network. The 50-year-old writer was nominated in the same category for 2011's Moneyball.

His other credits include Charlie Wilson's War andA Few Good Men. He also created TV's The West Wing.

Actor Ashton Kutcher isset to play Jobs in a separate project.