David Fincher to Direct Facebook Flick?

by Jenni Miller Jun 23rd 2009 // 7:02PM

It's looking very likely that David Fincher will be joining a social network soon. Make that The Social Network, a movie based on a script written by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin about Facebook.

Just like in those good old dot com days, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg hatched the site in his dorm room in 2004, which now boasts over 200 million users. The Social Network will follow the site from its, uh, humble Harvard beginnings to marketing buzzword. By the way, Zuckerberg's net worth is $1.5 billion, according to Forbes' list of the world's billionaires in 2008.

IMDb lists the project as on track for 2011, and Variety says the team is hoping "to begin production later this year."

The real questions are whether or not the project will tackle some of the issues looming over Facebook, such as your right to privacy and who owns the information you upload to Facebook, and if the idea and/or code was Zuckerberg's to begin with.

Next up: Scorsese will direct a film based on the Tweets of Courtney Love.

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Tags: aaron sorkin, AaronSorkin, david fincher, DavidFincher, facebook

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-23-2009 @ 8:21PM

paul said...

shades of tom hanks and meg ryan..

6-23-2009 @ 8:27PM

Jon said...

Um Fight Club,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,
Seven,The Game and now this ?

Whoa.....

6-24-2009 @ 12:12PM

Tim Lara said...

that means youll see brad pitt starring as zuckerberg lol

www.yovia.com/blogs/timlara

6-24-2009 @ 10:21AM

Jerald Brewer said...

You gotta be bloody kidding me! What's next:: "CuteOverloadDotCom -- Return Of The Kitten Empire"? Or, even better, "Judd Apatow's 'Cats In Racks'"?
If Fincher's name wasn't attached to this I wouldn't be giving this thing a 2nd thought.
But how many of us would rather that he do the long talked about "Rendezvous With Rama" instead?

6-24-2009 @ 2:24PM

People Search said...

This makes no earthly sense

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