Aaron Sorkin’s The Facebook Movie

Film director Aaron Sorkin, who has made acclaimed films like A Few Good Men and Charlie Wilson’s War, is apparently overcoming his fear of technology to create a Facebook page - in order to learn more about it AND make a film about it! The story goes that he is making the Facebook Movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin. From what we can see, it seems to be legit and not just a joke. This is what the Facebook group page for the movie says:

Welcome. I’m Aaron Sorkin. I understand there are a few other people using Facebook pages under my name–which I find more flattering than creepy–but this is me. I don’t know how I can prove that but feel free to test me.

I’ve just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I’ve started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she’s been dead for 33 years.)

On the page, he also asks fellow members for suggestions, comments and anecdotes about their Facebook experiences which could help him make the film. Yet another example of collaborative work online, this time culminating in a movie. Interesting indeed.

Image courtesy Facebook.

[via New York Magazine]