Facebook: The Movie

[number8]

Written by Aaron Sorkin.

No, I'm serious. (http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33807262256)


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.)

Some of you might be familiar with some things I've written. I'm the author of two Broadway plays--A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention, five feature films--A Few Good Men, The American President, Malice, Charlie Wilson's War and The Trial of the Chicago 7 which is in pre-production, and three television series--Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the first four seasons of The West Wing.

I honestly don't know how this works, which is why I'm here. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them as best I can. If anyone has any comments I'm glad to listen. And if anyone has any Facebook stories I think they might be helpful.

That's all. I'll try to get better at this as I get more practice.

Aaron

* I feel about this introduction the way I felt about Sophie's Choice--It could have been funnier.

[Wryan]

I hope it's dramatic.

[MadMan]

What the hell....

[Sycophant]

Is there something more interesting and compelling in the stories of Facebook's founding than I had presumed? Or its founders' backgrounds?

Actually, I think I'd like to see the movie where Scott Rudin convinces Aaron Sorkin to take the job of writing a movie about Facebook.

[Teh Sausage]

Interesting...

Actually, no. It isn't really.

[number8]

Is there something more interesting and compelling in the stories of Facebook's founding than I had presumed? Or its founders' backgrounds?

A little. Zuckerberg has been accused by many of his Harvard classmates of steaiing ideas and source codes for Facebook, which is why he's being called the next Bill Gates. Maybe you can make an Anti-Trust kind of thriller with it. :P

[Qrazy]

First the windshield wiper film and now this...

Holy Jesus Hollywood you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I genuinely hope there's an extended 15 minute sequence of a facebook code monkey attempting to boot up the webpage, all set to the that wonderful track Every Step You Take.

[Philosophe_rouge]

I doubt it can beat one of my classmates 3 minute film about an insane coke addict who sees that his girlfriend changes her relationship status, forcing him to murder her and hide the body.

[Melville]

I doubt it can beat one of my classmates 3 minute film about an insane coke addict who sees that his girlfriend changes her relationship status, forcing him to murder her and hide the body.
Hah! That's gold!

[Philosophe_rouge]

Hah! That's gold!
It also had music, and red tint... and a lot of coke! It was the longest 3 minutes of my life :frustrated:

[Ivan Drago]

Just wait Qrazy, in 20 years they'll come out with Youtube: The Movie. And then after that, Google: The Movie. And then they'll reboot those franchises after just one movie.

[Qrazy]

Just wait Qrazy, in 20 years they'll come out with Youtube: The Movie. And then after that, Google: The Movie. And then they'll reboot those franchises after just one movie.

I'm kind of surprised they haven't made a drama about The Internet in general. I believe in this series of tubes!!! Never give up hope, never surrender!

Or maybe they have and I conveniently ignored it.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Was fear.com about the Internet? Indirectly it was, but does that count?

[Qrazy]

Was fear.com about the Internet? Indirectly it was, but does that count?

Well I mean more like the creation of the internet.

[Ivan Drago]

Was fear.com about the Internet? Indirectly it was, but does that count?

I'm surprised anyone remembers feardotcom.

[number8]

"In a future... where information has become a global currency, and an easy reference source is as precious as gold... one evil kingdom's firewall threatens the very survival of mankind. Our only hope is one man, a lone paladin, who will bring a brave new world to its knees... with his knowledge. This is the legend of... ARCHIMEDES WIKIPEDIA."

[monolith94]

"In a future... where information has become a global currency, and an easy reference source is as precious as gold... one evil kingdom's firewall threatens the very survival of mankind. Our only hope is one man, a lone paladin, who will bring a brave new world to its knees... with his knowledge. This is the legend of... ARCHIMEDES WIKIPEDIA."
It'll be like "The Postman", about hope in an apocalyptic age. Only with disputed sources.

[NickGlass]

Actually, I think I'd like to see the movie where Scott Rudin convinces Aaron Sorkin to take the job of writing a movie about Facebook.

Aaron Sorkin : Charlie Kaufman :: Facebook : The Orchid Thief

That would be brilliant.

[Russ]

Some of the initial reactions were pretty funny.

[Spinal]

Is there something more interesting and compelling in the stories of Facebook's founding than I had presumed? Or its founders' backgrounds?


Nope. Not really.

[Wryan]

This will be really awesome and slightly misogynist. I can feel it.

[MadMan]

What the hell....Hi MadMan from 08-28-2008. You didn't think that two years later this was gonna be your #1 movie of 2010, did yah? Ah its funny how time changes things...