And a sweet reunion it is, as the studio has officially announced that Sorkin will adapt the bestselling biography by Walter Isaacson.  The project is being produced by The Social Network producer Scott Rudin, along with Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady. 

Sorkin, whose next project is this summer's HBO series The Newsroom (echoes of Sports Night), will work from Isaacson's official biography, which was written with unprecedented access to the man himself.  When it hit shelves shortly after Jobs' death last October, the book became a bestseller pretty much immediately.

To be clear, this is an entirely different film than Jobs, the independently-financed film more exclusively covering Jobs' younger years.  That project, currently in production, stars Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak.

Here's the official announcement on Sorkin and Steve Jobs from Sony:

CULVER CITY, Calif., May 15, 2012 – Academy Award® winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will adapt Steve Jobs, a motion picture based on the best-selling biography of the legendary Apple co-founder by award-winning journalist Walter Isaacson, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures. The project is being produced by Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady.

Published late last year, Steve Jobs was Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011. In addition, the biography ranked #1 among bestselling hardcover books by a 2:1 margin, with sales of 2,246,569 in 2011, according to Publisher’s Weekly.

Commenting on the announcement, Pascal said, “Steve Jobs’ story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time. There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.”

AARON SORKIN won the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Social Network. His other screenplays include Moneyball, Charlie Wilson’s War, The American President, Malice, and A Few Good Men. He has also acquired the motion picture rights to The Politician, the best-selling book by Andrew Young about the downfall of former Senator John Edwards. He will adapt the book and make his directorial debut with the film, which he will also produce. For television, Sorkin created “The West Wing,” “Sports Night,” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” He is currently in production on the HBO series “The Newsroom,” which is scheduled to premiere on June 24, 2012. For the stage, Sorkin wrote “A Few Good Men” and “Making Movies”; he returned to Broadway in 2007 with “The Farnsworth Invention.” Sorkin will return to the theater and make his Broadway debut as a librettist with the 2013-2014 production of “Houdini.” Based on the life of legendary magician Harry Houdini, the musical will star Hugh Jackman and will feature music and lyrics by Oscar and Grammy winner Stephen Schwartz.

So, let the speculation as to just who will get to spit out Sorkin's rapid-fire dialogue as Jobs in Steve Jobs.  Also, who will direct?  Will Sony attempt to lure David Fincher into another collaboration with the Academy Award-winning screenwriter?