Aaron Sorkin apologizes to Apple's Tim Cook over comments on Steve Jobs biopic

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Renowned screenwriter tried to bury the hatchet speaking to E! News
Said he hopes Cook enjoys the film 'as much as he enjoys his products'
Tit-for-tat began when Cook appeared on Stephen Colbert's Late Show
Called filmmakers 'opportunistic' for making a slew of movies about Jobs
Sorkin said: 'you've got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic'

Published: 13:44 EST, 28 September 2015 | Updated: 19:49 EST, 28 September 2015

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Aaron Sorkin has apologized to Apple CEO Tim Cook, saying the pair went too far when exchanging comments about the new Steve Jobs film.

The renowned screenwriter, who wrote the new biopic starring Michael Fassbender and directed by Danny Boyle, tried to bury the hatchet when speaking to E! News, saying: 'I hope when he sees the movie, he enjoys it as much as I enjoy his products.'

The blows began when Cook called filmmakers 'opportunistic' for making a slew of movies about his famed predecessor during an appearance on The Late Show.

Earlier this month Cook told talk show host Stephen Colbert that a string of unflattering portrayals of the Macintosh creator was 'not a great part of our world.'

Sorkin took issue with comments and hit back, telling the Hollywood Reporter: 'If you've got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you've got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.'

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Burying the hatchet: Aaron Sorkin (right on E! News) has apologized to Apple CEO Tim Cook (left on The Late Show) saying the pair went too far when exchanging comments about the new Steve Jobs film.

The new film, about tech titan that will open next month, said that the CEO should see his movie before judging it and gave a piercing retort to Cook's criticism.

'If you've got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour you've got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic,' Sorkin told the Hollywood Reporter.

Apple's production in China has previously undergone waves of criticism after a string of suicides at supplier Foxconn.

The company the published a set of rules about how workers should be treated and moved some of its production, though it is alleged that the standards are often broken.

Speaking after a press junket in London last week, the China accusation came as the Oscar-winning The Social Network screenwriter listed a bullet point rebuttal to the Reporter.

'Nobody did this movie to get rich... Secondly, Tim Cook should really see the movie before he decides what it is,' he said before serving up his sharpest barb.

Cook (left) told talk show host Stephen Colbert (right) earlier this month that Jobs was a joy to work with and movies that are sometimes critical of him are 'not a great part of our world'

Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender as the title character, opens next month as the latest in a string of movies about the Apple founder

The upcoming Steve Jobs movie has already garnered positive reviews and earned a 90 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

It follows a less well-received 2013 account of his life starring Ashton Kutcher and another recent look at his private life in the documentary Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine.

The movies focus on the business abilities of the tech innovator, but also on more negative aspects of his life and personality, with the documentary calling him, 'brilliant, bold, brutal'.

Cook spent time on Colbert's The Late Show praising the man who would make his company one of the largest in the world.

'He was a joy to work with and I love him dearly, I miss him everyday,' the CEO said.

Sorkin brought up Apple's cheap production in China as a response to claims about being 'opportunistic'. Above, workers at a factory in China's Guangdong province assemble an alternative to the Apple Watch

'I think that a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic and I hate that, it's not a great part of our world'.

Others who knew Jobs have praised the recent Sorkin movie for its realism.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniack told the BBC, 'In some prior movies, I saw [the actors] simulating Steve Jobs, but they didn't really make me feel like I was in his head understanding what was going on inside of him - his personality'.

Wozniack had previously met with Sorkin and told him stories.

'He didn't put them in what I consider necessarily accurate or fair ways in every case, but it still came out as a good movie.'.