“Actor Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin,” Christopher Palmeri and Emily Chang report for Bloomberg. “‘We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,’ Sorkin told Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang on a coming edition of Studio 1.0. ‘He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting.'”
“Sorkin, whose screenplay for “The Social Network” won an Academy Award, is working on an adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography ‘Steve Jobs’ for Sony Corp,” Palmeri and Chang report. “The film will begin shooting in the next couple of months, Sorkin said.”
Palmeri and Chang report, “‘He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined,’ Sorkin said. ‘There isn’t a scene or a frame that he’s not in. So it’s an extremely difficult part and he is gonna crush it.'”
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