Aug 28 2008 01:36 AM ET

Aaron Sorkin bringing Facebook to the big screen

Categories: Movie Biz

There may be some 140 pages on Facebook that reference Aaron Sorkin but this one is legit. The Emmy-award winning writer of such series as The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and films like The American President and Charlie Wilson’s War is, in fact, writing a screenplay for Sony about the creation of Facebook. Uber-producer Scott Rudin is producing, and Sorkin has established his own presence on the popular social-networking hub in an effort to start figuring out what this crazy Facebook thing is all about. Become his friend. Maybe you can help.

 

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  • Kelly

    It is really an insane network! I have only been on for 2 weeks and can’t stop checking it constantly!
    BTW, when i searched Aaron Sorkin on Facebook, it came up with one page and you can’t be his friend :(

  • Matt

    This has Lifetime movie of the week written all over it.

  • LK

    this is dumb on sooo many levels

  • Anonymous

    Unfortunately due to the media coverage of the facebook group, the wall posts and forum posts to which Aaron had been responding have likely become too numerous and repetitive for him to continue the same level of communication. So, thanks for that.

  • TJ

    Let’s see: It will be about a young white man who has earnest ideals and a quicksilver tongue, not to mention a fondness for Gilbert & Sullivan. And he comes up with this great idea, truly great, and it’s going to LIBERATE people to really connect and speak their minds, but then the corporate suits won’t understand him, leading this young man to make witty-but-bitter comments, and some of these liberated people on the internet will actually speak their minds about not liking him, or Facebook, and this will be portrayed as the ultimate evil, with no trace of irony whatsoever. But in the end this young white man will triumph to the sound of slightly outdated pop music. Yeah, not watching that.

  • Sean

    This could be truly great, though I think it is coming a little soon. Sorkin has a kind of love/hate relationship with the internet, having said once before that he thinks its one of the worst things in the world. It will be interesting to see the spin he puts on it.

  • Dawn

    sounds riveting.

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