( CNN ) -- Aaron Sorkin , the celebrated screenwriter whose punchy dialogue propelled TV 's `` The West Wing '' and the Facebook movie `` The Social Network , '' will write and direct an upcoming film on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs . Sony Pictures has confirmed that Sorkin will adapt `` Steve Jobs , '' the in-depth biography of the tech icon that was written by Walter Isaacson and released shortly after Jobs ' death last year . `` Steve Jobs ' story is unique : he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time , '' Amy Pascal , co-chair of Sony Pictures Entertainment , said in a written release . `` There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin ; in his hands , we 're confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was : captivating , entertaining , and polarizing . '' Sorkin won an Academy Award for adapting `` The Social Network , '' which in 2010 propelled Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to household-name status . His other work includes `` A Few Good Men , '' `` Moneyball , '' `` Charlie Wilson 's War , '' `` The West Wing '' and `` Sports Night . '' The yet-unnamed Steve Jobs film will be Sorkin 's first movie-directing gig . Sony reportedly wanted Sorkin for the film and began courting him immediately after securing the rights to Isaacson 's book late last year . Sorkin actually knew Jobs and wrote a piece for The Daily Beast about his memories of Jobs after his death . He wrote that he and Jobs had developed a `` phone friendship '' that led Jobs to invite him to write a movie for Pixar ( the animation studio Jobs ran ) and to tour Apple . `` I told him I 'd take him up on it and I never did , '' Sorkin wrote . `` But I still keep thinking about that Pixar movie . And for me , that 's Steve 's legacy . That , and the fact that I wrote this on a Mac that I loved taking out of the box . '' Another Jobs movie is also in the works . An independent film starring `` That '70s Show '' alum Ashton Kutcher is scheduled to begin filming in May .
Aaron Sorkin will write and direct film on Steve Jobs . He is the author of ` ` The West Wing '' and ` ` The Social Network '' The film will be based on Walter Isaacson 's autobiographical ` ` Steve Jobs ''