George Clooney is reportedly up against his former ER co-star Noah Wyle to play the role of Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic.
According to the Daily Mail, the pair are in talks to play the late Apple founder and CEO in the upcoming Sony film, which will be based on Walter Isaacson’s biography.
Oscar-winning The Social Network writer/director, Aaron Sorkin is said to be top of Sony's wish-list to write the film which is due to begin filming early next year and will reveal Job's life up until his untimely death following pancreatic cancer aged 56.
Noah Wyle is reportedly up against his former ER co-star George Clooney for Steve Jobs role
Clooney, 50, is apparently up against 40-year-old Wyle who played Jobs before in the 1999 film Pirates of Silicon Valley and Wyle was even invited by Jobs to that year’s Macworld Expo, after which he took the actor out for dinner.
Wyle recalled in an interview with Fortune magazine: “He took his napkin and started sketching out the schematics and he passed the napkin around the table.
“The check soon came and we started to get up the leave – and the napkin just sat there on the table.
“I thought to myself, ‘I got to take that napkin’ and my hand was on it, but Steve called from the door and asked, ‘Noah, you want to share a cab with me?’ So I put the napkin down. I could have had an Edison original.”
