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Facebook Movie Might Actually Be Worth Seeing

by Leila Brillson on July 8, 2009 at 05:01 PM



Initially, we were skeptical of a movie about a Web site. But then, there has never been a Web site quite like Facebook. So when we reported that the Mark Zuckerberg story had been written by 'West Wing' mastermind Aaron Sorkin and was potentially courted by gritty director David Fincher ('The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' 'Fight Club'), our interests were piqued.

But when Hollywood blogger Carson Reeves got his hands on the screenplay and called it one of his "Top 10," we really had to reconsider our original opinions. A movie about Facebook? Yes. And also, apparently, a movie about a geek kid from Harvard who got dumped by his girlfriend because he leapt from topic to topic like a newsfeed.

In his heartbreak, Zuckerberg did what most techy people in the early '00s (and today) did when they got upset: He blogged. Out of that blog came 'theFacebook,' which purportedly changed to simply 'Facebook' on the advice of Napster hotshot Sean Parker. Zuckerberg then linked up with schools... and the rest is multi-billion-dollar history.

While this project -- tentatively titled 'The Social Network' -- still has a long way to go, we can't think of a better subject for Hollywood's first biopic about an Internet star. [From: ScriptShadow, via FirstShowing]

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