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The fact that Hollywood is making a movie about Facebook shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise. Those dudes will make a movie about anything. I’m genuinely shocked that it’s 2009 and we still haven’t seen Doritos: The Movie. Yet. What is surprising is that Aaron Sorkin is writing it, because he is an adult, and he seems to have some talent. And what’s even more surprising is which other talented adult is in high-level talks to direct. From Variety:
Columbia Pictures is in advanced talks with David Fincher to direct “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film for Columbia Pictures about the formation of Facebook.
The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 200 million members.
WHAT’S IN THE GROUP?! WHAT’S IN THE GROUP, WHAT’S IN THE GROUP?!
Or:
The first rule of Facebook Club is you don’t talk about Facebook Club.
And other horribly out of date David Fincher references. “Benjamin Button has sent you a gift”? I don’t know. But David Fincher! What is this movie? No one wants this. “It’s gonna be like Shattered Glass meets Hackers meets Gordon Gecko.” No it’s not. (Admittedly, that is a quote that I just made up.)
Stop it, adults. You’re being totally bogue. DEFRIENDSTERED.
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Sorkin’s gonna get the greenlight for this one while the script for my Xanga biopic sits on the shelf. Well, that’s Hollywood I guess.
is it sad that when i read this i saw it as a reference from the past…in the same nostalgic way i think of saved by the bell? oh, xanga. vault of my youth.
u forgot to tag tyler durden
i was all about this when i thought it was going to de-trivialize all of my status updates and get background stories on all of the ended facebook relationships. (O. M. G.!!!)
but it’s about the creation of facebook? no, thank you.
Maybe Brad Pitt can sign on to this one now that he’s not doing the equally how-is-that-a-movie Moneyball.
I know you could say this about most movies, but this is going to sound really dumb in 30 years. My children (and their flying cars) are going to laugh at this. That being said, if we’re going to make a movie about modern trends, I’d enjoy a documentary about World of Warcraft (like the South Park episode but real life).
It should read:
The first rule of Facebook Club is that you ALWAYS TALK ABOUT FACEBOOK CLUB EVEN IF THE PERSON YOU ARE TALKING TO HAS COMPLETELY NO INTEREST IN JOINING FACEBOOK CLUB AND WISHES YOU WOULD JUST LEAVE THEM ALONE.
The second rule of Facebook Club is SRSLY KEEP TALKING ABOUT FACEBOOK CLUB!
The third rule of Facebook Club is I AM CHEMICALLY BURNING YOU!
One of us. One of us. One of us.
“You have Se7en friends.”
“Noooooooooooo!”
This seems like a project that would be better as a This American Life feature rather than a full-out documentary. The way that Facebook manipulates lives is interesting enough to me that I would listen to a show about it on my way to work, but definitely not pay $9 to see it when I could be experiencing so many explosions and robonuts for the same price.
DFINCHY is FADE TO BLACK:
I have one less friend today…and all morning I have been trying to figure out who DEFRIENDSTERED me.
My mom is gonna be so mad that you covered up Brad’s abs with your purple exclamations.
The first rule of Facebook Movie is that you don’t make Facebook Movie.
Tyler Durden is just Jack’s sockpuppet.
How well do you know Zodiac?
Aaron Sorkin is not only an adult who has actual writing talent, but an adult who finds frequent occasion to have his characters deliver righteous screeds about how everyone on the internet and/or who has ever pissed him off is a loser in cat pajamas and/or neocon idiot. I am laughing, but only so I don’t die of a tumor, which if I had it, I would name Danny. (Like Aaron Sorkin names all his characters.)
If you think Aaron Sorkin is talented, then you never watched STUDIO 60 or whatever it was called. I watched 5 min and it was about a producer that was obsessed with comments made in an online forum. So, it makes sense that he would do this and it follows that VideoGum readers hoping to make the ‘week’s top comments’ will LOVE it.
Are they going to include the part where Mark Zuckerburg totally ripped off Facebook from some other Harvard guys? Or how Facebook is basically one big info-farm for advertisers? Are they going to film the part where Facebook becomes lame because your mom and all of her friends start adding you?
Nope, it’ll probably just star Shia LeBouf being a douche for 90-minutes.
I’m not on facebook, so maybe the film is aimed at those with a fear of rejection and the belief that if they joined they wouldn’t reach up to 7 friends
are they going to work in a “mafia wars” subplot?