Steve Jobs' Request? For Aaron Sorkin to Write a Pixar Film

If you believe in alternate universes, then there's one out there where Steve Jobs is still alive, and Aaron Sorkin has written what is probably the greatest Pixar movie ever.

Here's the story: Sorkin and Jobs apparently were fairly well-acquainted, and the two spoke on the phone from time to time. Now that Jobs has passed, Sorkin recalled his last phone conversation with Jobs, in which the Apple CEO tried to convince him to write a movie for Pixar (which Jobs owned).

Here's a snippet of that conversation, from Newsweek via Collider:

AARON: I just—I don’t think I can make inanimate objects talk.

STEVE: Once you make them talk they won’t be inanimate.

AARON: The truth is I don’t know how to tell those stories. I have a young kid who loves Pixar movies and she’ll turn cartwheels if I tell her I’m writing one and I don’t want to disappoint her by writing the only bad movie in the history of Pixar.

(long silence)

STEVE: Jeez … write about THAT.

AARON: Steve—

STEVE: Why don’t you come up here and let me give you a tour of the place.

Apparently, Sorkin never took Jobs up on that offer, and now it's too late. But at least Jobs planted that seed in Sorkin's head. Can you imagine the kind of Pixar movie that Sorkin, Oscar-winning writer of "The Social Network" and "The West Wing," would turn out?

I've already expressed my dream that Sorkin would be the one to write the screenplay adaptation of the Steve Jobs autobiography (and how much more likely is that with this information?!), but having Sorkin write a Pixar movie might take precedent.