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There’s a classic joke about an the actress who was so dumb she tried to sleep with the writer in order to get ahead in Hollywood. The writer is not the star. And yet when Aaron Sorkin stepped on stage at the D10 conference Wednesday, all tanned skin and tousled hair, the audience of grizzled tech execs got all starry-eyed.

Sorkin’s not just any writer, of course. His track record—The West Wing, Sports Night, A Few Good Men, and many more—has made him a superstar screenwriter. He touched on the tech industry with The Social Network and will do so again as he writes the screenplay adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. And he’s got a show to plug—The Newsroom, premiering on HBO later in June.

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Aaron Sorkin, the creative genius behind The Social Network, The West Wing, and upcoming HBO show The Newsroom was recently confirmed as the screenwriter for Sony's upcoming movie based on Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs -- though, Sorkin himself says he has a lot of work to do.

Reuters reports that Sorkin held an interview with reporters and said he was still looking for something in Jobs' life to hang the movie on.

Sorkin noted that "The Social Network" saw the Facebook story through the lens of an acrimonious lawsuit that pitted CEO Mark Zuckerberg against his Harvard friends over the creation of the social media network.

"Drama is tension versus obstacle. Someone wants something, something is standing in their way of getting it. They want the money, they want the girl, they want to get to Philadelphia - doesn't matter ... And I need to find that event and I will. I just don't know what it is," Sorkin said.

He noted that it won't be a "straight ahead biography" because a biography has a natural "cradle-to-grave structure" that is very hard to overcome.

Sorkin also disclosed that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hired as a consultant by Sony Pictures to advise the filmmakers on the technical aspects of computers and about Jobs himself.

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