Look, I love social networking but this has gone too far! Variety is reporting that David Fincher is interested in directing an Aaron Sorkin-scripted film for Columbia Pictures about the formation of Facebook called The Social Network. Oh dear. yes, David Fincher - the guy who directed Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac and the frankly-awful-I-don’t care-what-anyone-says-one-eye-on-the-Forrest-Gump-Oscar The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Come on. Aaron Sorkin has even setup a Facebook group about the proposed movie.
According to Variety:
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.
Is a website, no matter how awesome and hands-across-the-world it happens to be worthy of a movie? What next?? Twitter: The Movie?? Uh-oh. Too late. Have we not learnt from our past? Movies about the internet and computers are not cool. Remember Hackers? Sandra Bullock in The Net?? Please David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin learn from these awful movies…
June 24th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I was on your side until you started dissing Hackers. Not cool man.
June 24th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Sorry Hackers is only cool in an ironic way.
June 24th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hackers came out in 1995. It was very cool to 15 year old computer nerds like me at the time. Plus, the OST was awesome. Orbital, the Prodigy, Underworld, Leftfield, Stereo MCs etc.