When Sony bought the rights to Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs (News - Alert)" biography before it was even published, it became instantly clear that the biopic would be a top priority for studio executives.

As such, Sony has reportedly reached out to an Oscar-winning screenwriter with some recent experience authoring the voice of a brilliant, game-changing and controversial tech mogul: Aaron Sorkin. The author of The Social Network admitted to E! Online that Sony has asked him to pen the upcoming Steve Jobs movie and that he is "strongly considering" hopping onboard.

"Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," he told E! at the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2011 event in Santa Monica. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it."

Sorkin, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Mark Zuckerberg (News - Alert) biopic, said that he is in the process of reading Isaacson's best-selling book but gave no timetable on a decision.

"He was a great entrepreneur, he was a great artist, a great thinker," Sorkin said of Jobs, who revealed more to the world in his authorized biography than he did in his 30-plus years in the public eye.

If Sorkin chooses to accept Sony's offer, he will be faced with a few challenges that he was able to avoid with The Social Network, the most obvious of which concerns Jobs' lengthy resume. Unlike Zuckerberg, who provided Sorkin with a clear and concise window of time to cover, Jobs has done enough in his career to make a trilogy of movies.

Picking and choosing which details to include – ranging from his challenging upbringing to his love/hate relationship with Apple (News - Alert) to his regrettable decision to treat his pancreatic cancer with alternative medicine – will no doubt be a chore for Sorkin. Couple that with the fact that we still know very little about Jobs' life outside of the office, and you are left with a serious challenge.

As for other major players in the upcoming film, Sony has reportedly signed on Saving Private Ryan producer Mark Gordon and is allegedly talking to two ER vets for the lead: Noah Wyle (News - Alert) and George Clooney.

Beecher Tuttle is a TMCnet contributor. He has extensive experience writing and editing for print publications and online news websites. He has specialized in a variety of industries, including health care technology, politics and education. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves