Steve Jobs biography film in the works?

The life of the late Apple Inc. co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs may soon be turned into a feature film, an infotainment online site reported. Deadline.com said Sony Pictures is making a hefty deal to acquire feature rights to Jobs' upcoming authorized biography by Walter Isaacson. "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," it said. The Deadline.com article said ICM reps both Isaacson and Gordon. While it said Sony Pictures has not commented so far, 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." Isaacson book's is due to be released October 24, it noted. The Deadline.com article said Jobs' biography may contain a compelling story: "the building of the world’s most valuable technology company by creating the devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music, and mobile phone industries." Jobs died Thursday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Deadline.com noted that at the time of Jobs’ death, only one movie had ever chronicled his rise to tech titan: "Pirates Of Silicon Valley." The movie, produced in 1999, was a semi-humorous docudrama about the two visionaries behind Microsoft and Apple based on the book "Fire In The Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer" by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine. "Shown on TNT in 1999, the tele-film starred Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates and Noah Wyle as Jobs. Reportedly, Jobs thought the ER actor did a fantastic job donning the turtleneck," it said. It noted that during the Macworld New York in July 1999, Jobs had Wyle come out dressed like him to start the keynote. TNT re-aired Pirates back-to-back on Thursday night in tribute, Deadline.com noted. — LBG, GMA News