George Clooney as Steve Jobs in New Movie

George Clooney is running to play the role of Steve Jobs in a new film about the life of the late Apple co-founder.

George Clooney with current girlfriend Stacy Keibler seen this week in LA.

However, he is not the only one: Noah Wyle (the one who played Steve Jobs in the 1999 film Pirates of Silicon valley) is also gunning for the role.

Noah Wyle

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.