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Aaron Sorkin Penning Sony Movie About The Founders of Facebook??
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Writer-producer Aaron Sorkin's big-screen follow-up to "Charlie Wilson's War" will likely deal with more recent history, specifically how a small group of Harvard undergrads founded the social networking website Facebook in 2004.
Sorkin's resume also includes scripting "A Few Good Men," "The American President," "Sports Night," "The West Wing" and "Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip."
Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here.
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He's a writing diety!
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This actually upsets me, considering what Facebook has become.
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Yeah, uh, no. Everything and everybody on social networking sites are navel gazing twats.
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As long as it shows how that douche bag "founder" stole the idea for Facebook from another group of guys who hired him to write the code for their social networking site.
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yea I've never been seventh before
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oooweee i'm on a roll. Whats better than eighth. Top ten baby, suck it.
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as in, hey you! I'm not anti semitic, in any way. The West Wing Kicks Ass!
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I heard Scorsee gonna in talks to do a movie about Spamming and DiCaprio's gonna put on 100lbs to play the very first douchebag sitting in his momma's basement who e-mailed someone an ad about erectile dysfunction.
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I think he could make this really interesting. Just get him back to TV.
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dumb
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most underrated thing he's ever done. Love that show!
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HEY, STOP IT, YOU PIECE OF SHIT! NO ONE POKES ON FACEBOOK ANYMORE! GROW THE FUCK UP!
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this is gross. Anyone involved in this project should be ashamed as I feel right now for posting about it.
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*drinking yoohoo* yeah i mean wow. *slurp* mmm loves me some yoohoo. what was I talking about? oh it doesn't matter
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He doesn't like Facebook nor dictionary.com. Maybe he'll have better luck at GED.com?
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wtf? I wanted a movie about fucking Google. What the hell is this?
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They have both been in various stages of development, only to be shelved due to the next big thing. Hollywood moves too damn slow to keep up with technology before it becomes passe.
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this will be the biggest blockbuster since "PARTY LINE: THE MOVIE", more popular than "iPHONE AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL" and sexier than "I'M-A-FUCKING-YUPPIE-WITH-TRASHY-SLUTS-AND-COKE-HEAD-DOUCHEBAGS-IN-A-MORALLY-AMBIGUOUS-GODLESS-WORLD-AND-I'M-INDIFFERENT-TO-STARVING-CHILDREN-AND-HOMELESS-BUT-I-WILL-SHAKE-YOUR-HAND-AND-YES-LET'S-SWAP-PROFILES-ON-OUR-FRIENDS-AND-BLOG-GOSSIP".
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or any of the other original bloggers...you know...an entire movie of really lonely guys living and working out of moms basement
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A safe and cheap alternative to Ambien. Thanks!
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Never mind. Let's not go there ...
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Staring Shia Labouf as the annoying poster who doesn't use propper grammar.
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Get ready for a wild ride!
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Golly, why don't you go talk about it on your self-absorbed facebook page, like every other twit that actually uses social networking / self-masturbatory sites like that. And make sure you spell it rite, cuz that iz what iz really important on the OMGROTFLOL internet. Dickbag.
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It is "I Am Jack's User ID". Remember, spaces are your friend. Fuckwit.
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Aug 27, 2008 11:27:01 PM CDT
When will we get "CHEAP VIAGRA CLICK HERE : The Movie"...?
by maxcalifornia.
I heard Daniel Day-Lewis was in talks to star.
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Harry Knowle turned me on to it. And I am forever grateful.
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Amazing! Just an absolutely gifted writer. But this project seems kinda dumb
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Aaron Sorkin is a hack of the most annoying variety.
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It seems like such an odd random choice, especially for a gifted talent like Sorkin. I agree with D.Vader; a movie about Napster would be far more interesting.
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a film about some computer type guys creating a website? pile of wank, sir.
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Aug 28, 2008 1:28:59 AM CDT
about a guy with a book for a face stalking ppl on facebook
by ironic_name
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thanks bong, you ruined my train of speach.
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Those wacky yet faceless code writers need their struggle documented.
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I'm not really big on either one, actually, but now having used both, I find myspace INFINITELY more user-friendly. The first time I saw someone's full profile page on Facebook, it looked like a spambot threw up all over a blank page. I didn't even understand what half the shit was supposed to be. At least with myspace, though some pages can still be overcrowded, pretty much all of the aspects of it are fairly self-explanatory.
I find this lawsuit kind of interesting though. I mean, let's be honest, how is this a revolutionary idea? I could easily see different groups of people having this idea in different variations at different times, all completely independent of each other. Creating a site where people can create a profile to interact with others, hello that's basically what places like Match.com already are, Facebook just isn't a site that's strictly about dating. It's a pretty universal idea. -
I'm just not feelin' it. Facebook: The Movie doesn't belong with those other movie credits.
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We saw how well Myspace was doing, copied that and added lots of annoying applications. That's it. End of movie.
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Yes, he had something on broadway recently about some inventor guy but aren't there bigger, more worthy topics in the world than the creation of site devoted to poking your friends and erstwhile aquaintances?
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This is the guy who made politics funny.
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Ninety minutes of showing how to use Google, interspersed with talking heads starting at "We were just two poor students" and ending at "Enjoy Google". That's gold, Jerry! Right?
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or early Geocities? They apparently don't know their web history, or weren't there.
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A movie where every five seconds the star has to tell everyone what he's up to ("I just had a coffee", "I just took a dump")... until noone cares at all... and the server crashes. And the dude who designed the system leaves and bags it totally. And the server crashes again.
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falcon and the snowman meets brazil.. the [true] story is hilarious.
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...yet another movie about spoiled Ivy League brats getting props ...for being spoiled Ivy League brats. "Wow, kids who had been given every opportunity available to them SOMEHOW got into Harvard and then used their expensive Ivy League education to make a website where EVERYONE ELSE does all the work!!" These guys deserve to be on the same mantle as the douchebags who "thought up" Youtube.
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Actually their are quite a few of those online already. Ahhh sweet German women, where would my love life be without you.
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... 'cause then we'd all KNOW who's responsible for all the brainless, arrogant little punk-asses cluttering up the internet with their mindless ramblings and pictures of their drunk-ass friends vacantly smiling whilst holding plastic cups of watered-down drinks and pushing their heads together to fit in the frame of some moron's camera phone.
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When do we get one about the superior site?
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Now those I want to see!
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not their. That would have bothered me for the rest of my life.
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Now that is a movie I would love to see! "Witness the rise (and fall) of this legend!"
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The entire movie (not just the clip we're all familiar with) shown in reverse. In HD. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
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If they really want to pack butts into theater seats they need to do Amazon.com - The Movie (Harry Knowles to provide financing).
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Which will definitely fail, along with a Facebook movie.
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Really, a movie about Facebook??? Another great Hollywood idea... I am almost wishing now that they would just stick to making crap remakes of great films. WHats the finale going to be?? Hasbro/Mattel tell them to remove Scrabelicious.... there is a huge car chase and gunfight.... then the Facebook guys say "Ok"... The End?
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And, of course, the video functionality will be complete shit, but you'll be able to put tags on everyone who appears in the movie.
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...2 1/2 hours of a blank white screen with the error message in a non-descript, Helvetica font... hell, it's at least be better than Babylon AD. l33t: The Story of Leet... 90 minutes of nerd gibberish. Harry Knowles Actually Gets Married!... a Judd Apatow, R-rated romcom... the film unfortunately bombs abysmally as audiences all over America flood theatre floors with projectile vomit upon seeing the fat guy from Lost (playing Harry) semi-naked. MySpace Cadets® (hey, I'm copyrighting this one... you Hollywood suits actually want to produce something like this... ya gotta pay me!)... CGI animated feature about 3 addlebrained divas who spend all their time inanely blogging, posting stupid photos of themselves and emailing idiotic surveys to everyone they know... and accidentally involving themselves in international intrigue. It's for the kids, but adults can enjoy it too on a whole other level.
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I have devised a great social networking exercise, what you do is go out and actually meet people.. Then when you poke them they bitchslap you upside the jaw for being so fucking socially repressed.
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Just kidding! Sorry, just wanted to give you a glimmer of hope in what is no doubt a dark, lonely world of yours where you sit in silent darkness and cry while cursing those that actually have friends and acquaintances. I would tell you to relax and go see a movie with some friends, but both are orders too tall (get it?) for you. Perhaps you should consider playing fetch in the interstate?
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...Seriously dude, you've swallowed the brainwash like a $10 crackho swallows spooge. Do you really consider the random airheads, crappy bands and other assorted douches you "connect" with on Facebook or MySpace to be actual friends? You need to get out more... at least you'd get some fresh air and sunshine and have a real life instead of a half-assed simulation of one. Let the trolling begin....Now! Neva... as long as I get a cut.
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First "hand" knowledge? Actually, in my rather small town that's busting at the seams, things like Facebook are a good source of activity and events going on. Just to correct you on your failed attempt to generalize me, all of my "friends" are people I know and have met in "real life"; and I assure you I get out and about probably more than you do. I don't have nearly as many Facebook friends as many people, nor do I spend a whole lot of time on it, but it's a fun distraction where I can see what my friends are getting into, post my photography, and message some friends occasionally. It's almost as fun as correcting douches like yourself that think you know me. Maybe you should take your own advice and get off the TBs for awhile? Maybe ride a bike or visit a park? I do it quite frequently and can say it's also a fun thing to do.
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I would watch a movie about Aaron Sorkin doing laundry, just put something on the screen as good as West Wing and Sports Night.
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that i would consider seeing.
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MILF Hunter Begins... hilarius. Kudos sir
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I love Aaron's work, he's easily one of the most talented writers in television, but this new idea sounds like a bore-fest! Come on Aaron, please do something else a bit more exciting.
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li!
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...one day, Johnny Depp will play Captain Crunch in a movie about a fucking cereal? I mean fuck! I heard Parker Bros. are doing movies for all of their most famous board games. "Monopoly, the Movie!"??!?! Fucking stab me in the heart with a tapered honey glazed pine cone. This is getting ridiculous...maybe there's a story there with these facebook clowns, maybe not (at least with MIT it would be geeks and not business nerds)...so maybe there is a story there, I don't know obviously but I can't imagine its gripping drama or "holy shit!!" drama like 'Pirates of Silicon Valley' (which was quite good actually) but a facebook movie? Shit, that napster douchebag has got to have a more interesting story right? Courtroom drama and Metallica's asshat drummer loosing his fucking mind in front of everybody in court? No, Facebook. Now that's drama! The home of nothing whatsoever. Now that I think about it, I'm not surprised.I wonder who will play Snap, Crackle, and Pop when the Rice Krispies movie comes out? I'm thinking the creepy pastor kid from 'There will be Blood' for Snap as he always seemed like an asshole (Snap, not the creepy preacher kid, he's just an actor). Maybe a girl can play Crackle so why not one of those country music has-beens progeny? Ciley/miley whatsherface? And of course...Shia LaBouwhemith for Pop. Morgan Freeman as the Cream of Wheat guy, Gandolfini for Chef Boy-ar-dee, Bill Nighy as the Quaker Oats guy? Nah..Nighy's aweseome-ness is supreme and untouchable...maybe William Hurt? Hugo Weaving as the Burger King. We know he can emote from behind a mask as 'V'...make it so!
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oh hai.
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no disrespect meant at all. playa.
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that's who they should be making a fucking film about. whoever it was to take this new technology and fill it with porn. think about it - if just 5% of everyone who has had a good wank over some porn they have found online said "yeah, i will pay $$$ to go see a film about those who had the vision to make available images to inspire masturbation", Titanic's BO record would be fucked.
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That when you try to type "First" and you're not it tells you not to bother.
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I know he gets a brief appearance in "knocked up" but we deserve the whole story.
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You can watch it from home! There's a horrible delay with the broadcast though.
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I bet the grammar and spelling in the credits will be atrocious.
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Before this lame crap! Robert Downey Jr can play Lars
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seeing as how Lars is a giant ass cake and most people hate on Shia fierce. Maybe Tom Cruise? There both "little people" who scream and freak out a lot. I still can't believe that redhead hottie from Devil's Advocate married that asscheese mnaster Lars Ulrich (the douchebag who had to record 'Fight Fire with Fire' at half speed cause he couldn't play it fast enough under the songs actual bpm! asshole!)
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Wonder who the mods would get to play them on the big screen.
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oops
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Mark Zuckerberg was 12 years old in 1996. He didn't start Facebook until 2004.
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Disses everyone on facebook as navel-gazing twats, whilst posting smug garbage on the most notoriously obnoxious talkback forum on the internet.
What's up, mate, wouldn't anyone accept your friend request? -
harry is played by... guillermo del toro. drew played by philip seymor hoffman. also the sequel The Dark Cool News will delve into the conflicts and more character-driven period of the big events like the mighty Aquaf@g (tb 2100) and how mori had to stop it, or the disturbing equus tb!
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for the mystery/nudity lovers.
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it's a fairly fun way to pass some free time. in particular the Poker tournaments they have on it - if you think there's some curious posts on AICN, you wanna see how the emotionally and intellectually retarded post on that.
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Seriously..look at the topic recently posted..Guitar Hero has a director..Disaster Movie actually got made..and then THIS..Sorkin must be back on coke and lacing it with PCP and meth. I wouldn't sit thru the proposed flick if I was being orally serviced by the Swedish beach volleyball team during the screening
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I would sit through anything if the Swedish Beach VB Team was blowing me!
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including several screenings of Titanic and Drop Dead Fred
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