You know, its funny. I've been on a major Sorkin kick this summer. First I finally saw Charlie Wilson's War on dvd finally (which I loved) then I bought and watched the first four seasons of the West Wing, and currently I drudged up my bootleg copies of Sports Night that I'm enjoying on my computer every night. By the way, Sports Night will release a 10th anniversary dvd edition Sept 30. Expect me to review it then. And as always I was sad to see Studio 60 go.So yeah, I can say I'm a big Sorkin fan.
News comes today that Sorkin has signed a deal to write a screenplay about, of all things, the founding of Facebook. That's right, Facebook. Like go on there and write on your friends wall and poke them, Facebook.
While I can't say how intriguing said funding is, I will say that if I had to pick someone to elevate such material that I wasn't vomiting at the mere mention of it, it's Sorkin. I have often stated that Sorkin could write about characters reading the phone book and I would watch it. I guess this is tantamount to that.
For more info, check out the story here.
And the facebook group here.
Sidenote: If you go on facebook and search Aaron Sorkin you will actually find the profile he used to announce it. Sadly you cannot become his friend.
