Batman will be playing the part of Steve Jobs.
And he didn’t even have to audition.
Per Bloomberg, actor Christian Bale didn’t have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. co-founder, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
“We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,” Sorkin told Bloomberg Television’s Emily Chang on a coming edition of “Studio 1.0.” “He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting.”
Sorkin, whose screenplay for “The Social Network” won an Academy Award, is working on an adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography “Steve Jobs” for Sony Corp. The film will begin shooting in the next couple of months, Sorkin said.
The writer is known for his fast-paced dialogue in shows such as TV’s “The West Wing” and “The Newsroom,” and in 2010’s “The Social Network,” about Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Leonardo DiCaprio was in talks earlier for the Jobs part. Danny Boyle, who won an Oscar for directing “Slumdog Millionaire,” is attached to the project.
The role will be challenging even for Bale, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for “The Fighter” in 2011, according to Sorkin.
“He has more words to say in this movie than most people have in three movies combined,” Sorkin said. “There isn’t a scene or a frame that he’s not in. So it’s an extremely difficult part and he is gonna crush it.”