George Clooney is reportedly in the running to play the late Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs in an upcoming film.
The biopic will chart Steve’s life until his death from pancreatic cancer aged 56.
George, 50, is apparently up against 40-year-old Noah Wyle for the role.
The pair starred opposite one another in the long-running hospital drama ER.
Filming for the biopic, which will be made by Sony Pictures, is due to start next year, according to Now magazine.
Sony is reportedly hoping that Oscar-winning Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will write the script.
The competition between George and Noah may prove tough however, as Noah has played Steve Jobs before, in the 1999 cult classic Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Noah was even invited by Steve to that year’s Macworld Expo, after which he took the actor out for dinner.
‘He took his napkin and started sketching out the schematics and he passed the napkin around the table,’ recalled Noah in an interview with Fortune magazine.
‘The check soon came and we started to get up the leave – and the napkin just sat there on the table,’ he continued.
‘I thought to myself, “I got to take that napkin” and my hand was on it, but Steve called from the door and asked, ‘Noah, you want to share a cab with me?’ So I put the napkin down. I could have had an Edison original.’
George and Noah both played doctors in the classic television series ER, which picked up 23 Emmy Awards over its 1994-2009 run.
Clooney has recently been replaced by Channing Tatum in the forthcoming movie The Man From U.N.C.L.E, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
The Ocean’s Eleven star was unable to got through with the role because it was too physical.
He was due to start filming after undergoing spinal surgery for an injury he picked up while working on his 2005 hit Syriana.
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