Steve Jobs' life is set to be brought to the big screen after Sony Pictures bought the film rights to his biography.The studio behind Facebook film The Social Network has reportedly paid about $1 million to base the movie on the forthcoming authorised biography of the late Apple founder.
In his final days before dying last week aged 56, Jobs said that he had authorised the book so that his children could understand why he was not always there for them.
Hollywood blog Deadline.com first reported that Sony Pictures had made the large offer to acquire the rights to the biopic.
After Jobs' death on Wednesday, publisher Simon & Schuster pushed up the release date on the book ‘Steve Jobs' by Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson by a month to October 24.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the last interview before his death to explain that he wanted the biography to be a love letter to his family.
Love letter: Jobs, pictured with his wife Laurene, said that he had authorised the biography so his family could read it
'I wanted my kids to know me,' he told Isaacson, when asked why he agreed to a tell-all book despite living a famously private life.
'I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did,' he added poignantly at his home in Palo Alto, California.
On that final visit last month Isaacson found Jobs coiled up in pain in a downstairs bedroom where he had moved to avoid going up and down stairs, 'but his mind was still sharp and his humour vibrant,' Isaacson said today.
The biography, simply titled 'Steve Jobs', was at the top of the best-seller lists within hours of Apple's announcement of his death.
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