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Aaron Sorkin Has Officially Run Out of Things to Write About
Jossip — ... , according to, um, Facebook. This whole "story" is based around the fact that some guy claiming to work for Aaron Sorkin created a Facebook group early this morning to do "research" on the site. ...

The Social Networking Website Movies That Never Were
Videogum — As Vulture Blog reported today, Aaron Sorkin, writer of West Wing and A Few Good Men, is currently working on a movie about Facebook. He's even created the Facebook Group to prove it. Says Sorkin's Facebook: 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 ...

10 Other Websites That Need Their Own Movie
SpoutBlog — So, Aaron Sorkin, writer of such films as A Few Good Men, The American President and Charlie Wilson’s War, and, of course, creator of TV’s The West Wing, is apparently now working on a movie about Facebook for Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men). Yes, that’s right, a Facebook movie. News comes to us directly from the social networking site, as Sorkin himself announced the project by admitting that ...

A "Facebook" Movie? Yep, by Aaron Sorkin
Film Gecko — ... I just joined his group, called Aaron Sorkin & The Facebook Movie (hope it’s the right one!), and left a message on his “wall,” saying I’d continue to post updates on ...

NET NEUTRALITY
Filmmaker Magazine — ... before in which he's talked about capturing the rhythms of intelligent speech and about how one doesn't have to know all the details of a character's profession in order to write that character. And yes, often an outsider's eye can be the best when it comes to entering into a world and finding the moments of drama that will connect with a larger audience. But did he have to go so far as say that his dead grandmother knows more about the internet than he does? You can visit Sorkin's Facebook group here. # posted by Scott Macaulay @ 8/28/2008 01:11:00 PM ...

Aaron Sorkin Joins Facebook to Write Facebook Movie
BuzzSugar — [image] I find this movie news intriguing, baffling and preposterous all at the same time. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (you know, The West Wing , ...

Sorkin to Poke Us with a Facebook Movie [In Development]
Film School Rejects — ... I came here because Aaron Sorkin has decided he’s going to write a movie about Facebook. Here’s his message: ...

Links for the Day (August 29th, 2008)
The House Next Door — ... the ride in the potato truck) is sick squirmy fun, there's something that most people miss or at least don't feel like discussing. Hitchcock beats Michael Haneke to the punch a good 25 years prior to the latter's ascendancy in indicting his audience for what they're not walking out on."] *** 4. "Coming soon: 'Facebook: The Movie'?": From the Los Angeles Times. Sorkin's Facebook page is here. ["Is Aaron Sorkin getting his geek on? The famous technophobe and Hollywood ...

LA diary: Shooting scripts, styling and schadenfreude
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — ... this week but I'm struggling to get the first draft finished. My failsafe remedy of going for long bike rides on the beach has left me exhausted not exhilarated. And driving randomly around LA listening to loud music (which is what Aaron Sorkin does when he hits a wall) simply used up petrol and hurt my ears. I honestly don't know how people find the all important work/write balance, particularly if like me, their day job is writing. A few days ago I'd been writing so much that looking at the computer screen made me nauseous. Lying down made me feel sick, so I stayed up all ...