So technically this new film isn’t based on a book, but really that’s just a difference between “screenplay by” and “written by”. One of the central characters of the new film wrote a book and I’m confident Aaron Sorkin read that book, but it isn’t technically based on that book.
Aha, thank you for clarifying! I literally did not know that both movies were based on a series of novels. My bad 🙂
So technically this new film isn’t based on a book, but really that’s just a difference between “screenplay by” and “written by”. One of the central characters of the new film wrote a book and I’m confident Aaron Sorkin read that book, but it isn’t technically based on that book.