Facebook Making Friends With Sorkin, Fincher?
Tue, June 23, 2009 
Every year, I sort of dread April Fool's Day. That's the day when typically level-headed journalists create supposedly humorous fake stories. You can't believe anything you read that day; but, as most journalists know, it is very important that your readers always have 100% faith that what you are telling them is accurate. therefore, it is not a tradition that makes sense to me.
I bring this up because the following information feels like an April Fool's Day story. And yet, somehow, it's completely legit.
According to Variety, Aaron Sorkin has written a story about the creation of Facebook, and David Fincher is in "advanced talks" to helm the movie, which will be called "The Social Network."
The Variety story states: "The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 200 million members. Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca and Trigger Street are producing for Columbia Pictures. The hope is to begin production later this year."
A movie written by Sorkin and directed by Fincher has every chance to be epic. A movie about the founding of Facebook has every chance to be a colossal waste of time. What will happen when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Reader Comments (2)
Maybe it is more about the people and less about the actual startup of Facebook. I remember seeing a reallly good, I believe it was a TV mini-series, about the founders of Apple Computers.
The only way I see this happening is if it evolves into a story about some serial killer using facebook to select his victims