Widely reported a couple of days ago, David Fincher’s movie about the creation Facebook has been officially greenlit and will begin shooting in October on a budget of $47 million. The movie is based the book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. Here Aaron Sorkin talks about how quickly he became convinced he wanted to adapt it. I’ve seen Sorkin’s script, Social Network, and can assure you there’s no reason to be skeptical — it’s a great story, a great read, and it’ll be interesting to see Fincher scale back from effects-heavy films to work in a more intimate vein for a change.
[Note: I'm told that this video has been floating around for several days, but it's new to me so maybe new to some of you too. Clearly the interview itself has to be a few months old because he's talking about being almost done with a first draft of a script that's been in the wild for weeks.]
Social tagging: Aaron Sorkin > David Fincher
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