Aaron Sorkin To Make A Film About Facebook

By Ona Zachary
14:20, August 28th 2008
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Aaron Sorkin To Make A Film About Facebook

Aaron Sorkin, famous Hollywood scribe and creator of “The West Wing,” is currently in negotiations to write a film project about the founders of the most popular social networking site: Facebook.

The project is yet untitled but it will reportedly be produced by Scott Rudin for Columbia.

Sorkin revealed his project-writing plans on the very social networking site, where he opened up his own account, although he admitted he has little Internet knowledge. On his profile, he explains that the account was made by his researcher, Ian Reichbach, “because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she’s been dead for 33 years.”

Sorkin tries to convince the Facebook community that he is the real Hollywood writer, as there are a few other people with accounts under his name – which he finds more flattering than creepy – and then he reveals his intentions of writing a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin “about how Facebook was invented.” He admitted that he set up his account to see what Facebook was about, as he had no idea how it functioned.

In order to convince fans that he was the real Sorkin, the writer has been responding to several questions about his work and posting photos of him playing tennis. However, he did not reveal too many details concerning the new film.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, while he was a Harvard student. He had no idea, back then, that Facebook would become such an important Internet social phenomenon with more than 100 million users all across the globe.

Membership was only granted, at first, to Ivy League university students, then it was expanded to all universities and high schools in the US and Canada, before being opened to Internet users all over the world.

Zuckerberg has so far been made offers of billions of dollars, but he preferred to remain independent.



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