Get ready all you Facebook “fans.”
A movie will soon be made about the popular stalking networking site and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg.
Writer-producer and the creator of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin, has just announced the news on his official Facebook page.
Sorkin is currently in negotiations to write the film surrounding the founders of the site. It is said to be produced by Scott Rudin.
We wonder if the movie will make mention of the fact that Zuckerberg was accused of having stolen the idea for Facebook from his Hardvard classmates who hired him to work on their site, ConnectU????
They claim he stole their idea, design, source code, and business plan.
A lawsuit was even filed in 2004 with the claims of breach of contract, copyright infringement, and a list of other accusations.
However, this past June, Facebook fianlly agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of cash and stock to settle the legal suit with ConnectU.
As for Sorkin, he wrote to all his friends online by stating “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. 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 and she’s been dead for 33 years.)”
What do U think?
Something worth watching if it makes it to theaters?
Why wasn’t this a made for TV film????
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