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Facebook "the movie" gets thumbs up

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Aaron Sorkin has apparently finished his script for what is being dubbed Facebook "the movie" (real title 'The Social Network') and its all sounding very promising.

There are a lot reasons to look forward to this. Not least Aaron ('West Wing') Sorkin's writing; David ('Fight Club') Fincher possibly as director and how it will bring to life the Facebook story.

Reviewed by the blog ScriptShadow, which gives it high marks, 'The Social Network' is full of humour and yet manages to deal with plenty of serious business issues as it tells the story of how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook and the people who were involved along the way (and, oh yeah, are now suing him).

It apparently starts with Zuckerberg getting dumped and how this spurred him to fight back the only way a geek knows how: online with a little code, as he comes up with an idea for a website (with help from friend Eduardo Saverin) – "a sort of Hot or Not which allows Harvard guys to compare Harvard women against each other".

This famously connects the two with brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (the ConnectU guys): two rich brothers who are members of the Harvard rowing team. Impressed by what they've seen from the buzz Zuckerberg and Saverin have created with their site, they want them to develop a Harvard "Myspace-like" network.

You get the picture. Zuckerberg and Saverin start work on the site, but work on their own variation along the way. Oh yeah he called it TheFacebook. Enter Sean Parker, the Napster founder. He apparently suggests they drop The and call it Facebook and went on to become the founding president of Facebook.

Enter the legal wrangling and everyone suing everyone including Zuckerberg and Saverin. Although Saverin was latterly re-instated as a "co-founder" of Facebook having been previously corporately exorcised.

How much of that if any makes it to the screen is another matter, but Sorkin's work is so watchable his fast paced dialogue unmatched.

Even better (if you like baseball) Sorkin has apparently picked up the reins for the script of 'Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game' by Michael Lewis, which tells the story of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Or more precisely how one of the poorest teams in baseball did so well against some of the richest.

Sorkin (who also wrote the TV show 'Sportsnight') is to write a script after Steven Soderbergh's take got booted by Sony. Brad Pitt was attached to Soderbergh's film and is apparently still interested in playing Bean.

Published Jul 10 2009, 03:40 PM by Gordon Macmillan

Filed under: Facebook, West Wing, baseball, Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball, Oakland Atheltics

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by Facebook "the movie" gets thumbs up

July 14, 2009 5:34 AM

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by John Gallen

July 14, 2009 10:54 AM

I'm really struggling to get excited about this.... I think there would have to be a big focus of the plot on the controversy over the theft (?) of the idea for facebook to give it any real grit. Maybe Bruce Willis will come crashing through the Harvard campus in a yellow taxi and Will Ferrell will turn up at Alpha-Beta-Gamma sorority house as Frank The Tank…. :)

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