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Ashton Kutcher has found his nemesis. Entertainment Weekly's Inside Movies blog is reporting that Matthew Modine will play John Sculley in upcoming Steve Jobs biopic called jOBS. As Jobsian scholars will recall, Mr. Sculley was the former Pepsi CEO personally recruited by Jobs in 1983 with the pitch, "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?" Um, door number 2?

Jobs resigned after clashing with Sculley, who was forced out in 1993--a move we imagine will be accompanied by a triumphant classical score. 

jOBS is supposed to start filming soon--well ahead of Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic, which will be based in part on Walter Isaacson's Jobs-approved tome.

The dueling films means Mr. Jobs will join an elite club of Steve Prefontaine, Truman Capote, and Marilyn Monroe, who also got the big screen treatment twice in a row. Could Zuck be next? Maybe a post-IPO rags-to-riches story about a poor, maligned billionaire who grows up to become Lord Zuck of Menlo Prime.

Mr. Sorkin (flickr.com/politicalpulse)

One Steve Jobs biopic isn't cool. You know what's cool? TWO Steve Jobs biopics. At least according to Hollywood.

Though it's been widely-rumored since late last year, a press release issued by Sony Pictures yesterday confirmed what is either your worst nightmare or dream come true, depending on how pearl-clutchy you are about the tech industry: Aaron Sorkin will be adapting Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography of Steve Jobs for Sony Pictures. We're positive it will be every bit as packed with heavy-handed dramatic irony and "so bad it's good" euphoria as The Social Network is.

Unfortunately, Mr. Sorkin's movie may have a competitor in the already-announced JOBS Movie, starring Ashton Kutcher. But that's an indie biopic with an official Twitter so terribly rendered that we originally thought it was fake. Additionally, the working title for that film--Steve Jobs: Get Inspired--may be one of the most terrible movie titles we have ever heard.

If casting for Mr. Sorkin's film can find an actor who bears a resemblance to Mr. Jobs as strong as Mr. Kutcher's, we're sure they'll have nothing to worry about.