In some particularly strange news, it's been announced that brilliant scribe Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Studio 60, Charlie Wilson's War) has been hired to a pen a film on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the social networking site while studying at Harvard along with pals Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Despite offers in the billions of dollars, Zuckerberg has steadfastly remained independent, and refused to cash-in on the site's success. How this will translate to celluloid is anyone's guess, but Sorkin had this to say after setting up his own page: "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". He then added "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.)" With Sorkin attached there's always hope for a stellar production; let's hope his account amounts to more than futile research.
