Three scenes is all the MacGyver of screenwriting needs to tell a non-boring version of the Steve Jobs story, Aaron Sorkin has revealed.
“I hope I don’t get killed by the studio for giving too much away,” Sorkin told The Daily Beast yesterday. “But this entire movie is going to be three scenes, and three scenes only, that all take place in real time”.
Speaking at The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit, the regurgitation-prone Oscar winner/person who magically made the founding of Facebook interesting revealed that the untitled Steve Jobs biopic will take place backstage prior to three of his most
important product launches: “the first being the Mac, the second one being NeXT after he had left Apple, and the third one being the iPod.”
Sorkin also revealed plans to end the film with lab-engineered catharsis via the quote, “Here’s to the crazy ones”, rendered in either voiceover or text, from
Apple’s legendary 90’s “Think Different” commercial.
“If I can earn that ending then I’ll have written the movie that I want to write,” Sorkin said.
The movie he wants being the one where everyone cries at the end.
Watch the entire chat with The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown below.
