The new sony to create Jobs biopic

The new sony Pictures is within discussions to get feature film privileges to Walter Isaacson's approaching approved biography recently Apple co-founder Jobs. The new sony had no discuss it deal. Mark Gordon will produce the image through MG360, the film production partnership between Gordon and Management 360. Initially skedded for release on November. 21, Simon & Schuster will publish "JobsInch on March. 24 instead of Jobs' dying on March. 5. The 448-page book features 2 yrs price of interviews with Jobs, who decided to participate as they was fighting cancer to ensure that Isaacson could better capture his legacy. By mid-August, Jobs had not browse the book, that has seen its pre-sales skyrocket. Isaacson, the first kind CNN chairman and Time Magazine controlling editor, has formerly written biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger and Albert Einstein. Within the wake of Jobs' passing, TNT has introduced it'll re-air the 1999 telepic "Pirates from the Plastic Valley," which chronicled Jobs' competition with Microsoft visionary Bill Gates. The new sony isn't any stranger to movies about technological entrepreneurs, getting lately launched "The Social Networking," which chronicled an upswing of Facebook Boss Mark Zuckerberg. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com