Over the past couple of years Apple CEO Steve Jobs had been working with writer Walter Isaacson to put together a biography of Jobs’ life.

That book is set to be published later this month, and now Sony has snapped up the film rights. But is it too soon?

Deadline reported late last week:

I’m hearing the deal is $1 million against $3 million and that Mark Gordon will be the biopic’s producer. But this will be an MG360 project, which is the movie production partnership between Gordon and Management 360. ICM reps both Isaacson and Gordon. Sony Pictures would not comment. The studio seems a good fit for the book, having boiled business books into compelling dramas with both the Oscar-nominated The Social Network and Moneyball.

Do you think a film based on Jobs’ life would be appropriate in due time?