From the Editors
Facebook: The Movie. No Joke.
Hey, it was bound to happen eventually, right? blogs Film Junk. Hollywood writer-producer Aaron Sorkin, co-creator of The West Wing, is writing a movie about the founding days of Facebook. There's just one problem: as Sorkin admits, he knows nothing about Facebook. So he's set up a group page on Facebook called Aaron Sorkin & The Facebook Movie (via Bring Nothing to the Party). This could get scary, says Epicenter. "We've moved right into an age where the most sprawling, life-sucking, omnipresent social networking site is now considered grounds for commercial cinema" says The Lane Train. Sorkin made arcane public policy debates seem like the stuff of high drama. Can he do the same for the programming nerds who launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm room? asks Tech Observer. Venture Beat is more worried Sorkin will just repeat all the fawning stories that have already been written about the company, with his own crude spin. What Vulture realy wants to know is how will Sorkin, the master of guys walking down hallways and talking, write scenes of guys IMing each other for hours?
Bloggers promptly began the game of guessing who should play nerdy Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A Valleywag poll has Superbad's Michael Cera with a commanding lead. The Social says Jason Schwartzmann. Poke me when you know blogs Jessica Guynn of the LA Times. This does not appear to be related to Face Off, a rumored forthcoming novel known only by a few pages of a juicy proposal that leaked to gossip blog Gawker. The proposal claims Zuck and his friend Eduardo Saverin started Facebook to get into a secret society - and, of course, to get laid.
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