Earlier this month we learned that Sony had picked up film rights to the just-released Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, and today we’re hearing that critically acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin may pen the project.

Sorkin has a history with Sony. He wrote the very successful Facebook movie The Social Network.

The Los Angeles Times broke the story:

Sony is moving forward with a Steve Jobs movie based on Isaacson’s book. And one of the writers being courted by producers to pen his story, according to a person who was briefed on the project but not authorized to speak about it publicly, is Aaron Sorkin, Hollywood’s chronicler-in-chief of the complicated visionary.

The “Moneyball” and “Social Network” writer was said by the person to be considering the prospect but had made no decisions. Sony and a Sorkin representative declined to comment on the writer’s potential involvement.

Would the writer be a good fit for the story of the Apple leader, which is being produced by “Saving Private Ryan” producer Mark Gordon and the Hollywood management and producing mainstay Management 360?

Sorkin is known for penning stories about the lives of fiercely smart, if difficult, figures, of which Jobs certainly was one. Isaacson’s take on the late executive as someone whose penchant for “magical thinking” was both a great advantage and a fatal liability seems particularly suited to a Sorkin script, as does the detail about Jobs’ biological father, whom he met unwittingly at a Silicon Valley restaurant.

Jobs once asked Sorkin to write a Pixar film but he declined.

What do you think of this news?