Aaron Sorkin Signs 3-Film Deal with DreamWorks

Aaron Sorkin - whose new play The Farnsworth Invention will bow on Broadway this November - has been signed to write for three films produced under the DreamWorks banner, according to Variety.

Oscar-winning director/producer Steven Speilberg - who is rumored (although not confirmed) to be among the producing team of The Farnsworth Invention - hopes to direct the first of the three films, The Trial of the Chicago 7.  The drama, which Speilberg (Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler's List) has been developing with Sorkin and producers Walter Parkes and Laurie McDonald, "focuses on the trials of protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, where clashes between demonstrators and police made it one of the defining events of the '60s."

Sorkin is well-known for TV hits such as "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," as well as his play A Few Good Men (which he adapted into a hit film).  "The quality of (Aaron's) work speaks to the kind of movies we want to make here at DreamWorks and we couldn't be happier to have him in our filmmaker family," said DreamWorks CEO and co-chairman Stacey Snider.  Other upcoming Sorkin projects include Charlie Wilson's War, which he adapted from the book by George Crile, and which will be directed by Mike Nichols and star Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.  The Farnsworth Invention received a developmental production at La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year.

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