{"id":2340,"date":"2011-10-15T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2011-10-15T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T20:32:15","slug":"sony-acquires-film-rights-to-steve-jobs-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"Sony Acquires Film Rights to Steve Jobs Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures is in the process of acquiring film rights to <em>Steve Jobs<\/em>, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s description is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isaacson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book was originally scheduled to be released by Simon &amp; Schuster on November 21 but has been moved up nearly a month to October 24.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as the only authorized biography, <em>Steve Jobs<\/em> is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs in addition to interviews with more than one hundred friends, colleagues, competitors, and family members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures is in the process of acquiring film rights to Steve Jobs, the upcoming authorized biography by former CNN chairman and Time Magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson. The book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s description is as follows: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as well as interviews with more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}