During a Q&A session at The Daily Beast’s Hero Summit, Sorkin revealed on Thursday his unusual plan for bringing Jobs’ story to the big screen. Rather than take an audience through Jobs’ life with a standard series of well constructed scenes, Sorkin’s sсript will feature just three scenes, each roughly 30 minutes long, that unfold in real time.
“I hope I don’t get killed by the studio for giving too much away,” Sorkin said. “Each of these three scenes is going to take place backstage before a product launch.” The first product will be the Macintosh in 1984; the second, the NeXT computer in 1990, which Jobs masterminded after he’d been essentially fired from Apple; and the third the iPod in 2001, five years after Jobs returned to Apple when the company purchased NeXT./