Aaron Sorkin Creates Facebook Group

by Jason Sanders | August 28, 2008 at 08:55 am

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I guess if you create a multi billion dollar company by the time you're 21, Aaron Sorkin might decide to make a movie about you and create a Facebook group "for research". Of course, many, including myself, assumed that the Group that popped up earlier this week was a hoax by a few people with too much time on their hands, but, it happens to be true.

[I]n an e-mail to Vulture, producer (and former Vulture boss) Scott Rudin has confirmed that this is indeed Sorkin, and that Sorkin is indeed writing a Facebook movie for Sony.

Sorkin's been busy answering questions on the page's message board: asking for, and giving, advice and offering a level of interaction most creators shy away from.

Erik,

That's a pretty good observation and one I'll keep in mind as I move forward. Do you see any dangers in socializing by computer? That wasn't a leading question, I'm honestly asking.

Aaron

Marina Mularz (Chicago, IL)
wrote on Aug 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Aaron,
As a recent Chicago high school grad turned Cal State Northridge Screenwriting student, I was hoping you could give me some advice; what's the best way to find an internship?

Marina,

Good luck at Northridge. I'm going to get the answer to your internship question from some people who know better than I do (the people who hire the interns) and get back to you.

Andy Diggle
wrote 21 hours agoHere's a question: How do you keep finding new ways to dramatize exposition?

Unfortunately, once the Internets got a hold of the news, the questions got more fanboyish and began going unanswered:

Mr. Sorkin--

I've heard that Kevin Spacey's character in Swimming With Sharks is based on Scott Rudin. You don't have to put up with any shit from him, I'm sure, because you're easily considered to be one of the most talented writers and developers of stories in Hollywood. Do you think that it's true then, that SWS's director, George Huang, someone I'd argue had major creative potential, was blacklisted in Hollywood?

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jordan

at 11:34 on August 28th, 2008

At least one of my film-fest contacts has joined this group... I'm not 100% convinced it's legit, though, primarily because I cannot think of a less compelling concept for a film. Yeah, I use facebook, but c'mon.