Google Chrome OS unveiled, released to open source community

Join Obsessable Sign In

Sharp loses to Samsung, is ordered to cease LCD shipments to U.S. What cable companies should be doing instead of TV Everywhere

Facebook movie "The Social Network" may be directed by David Fincher

Variety: http://bit.ly/TouNp

Digg del.icio.us Facebook StumbleUpon Twitter

Computing | by Samuel Axon | Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:45PM | 0 comments

Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button director David Fincher is in advanced talks with Columbia Pictures to direct The Social Network, a film based on the true story of the founding of Facebook. The screenplay is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires and was written by Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter known for The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The American President, and Charlie Wilson's War.

This story around the web:

Trusted sources:
external link Fincher circles Facebook movie -… [variety.com]
external link Fincher circles Facebook movie (Michael… [Techmeme]
external link Facebook movie pinning down director, cast |… [news.cnet.com]
external link Facebook Movie is An Adaptation of The… [slashfilm.com]
external link Lights, Camera, Action: The Facebook Movie -… [pcworld.com]
external link WTF: David Fincher to Direct The Facebook… [slashfilm.com]
external link A Facebook Biopic? David Fincher Likes This.… [movieline.com]
external link Gawker - The First Rule of Facebook Club… [valleywag.gawker.com]

Latest Tweets about this story:

  • actu_tunisie - Actu — Facebook filmé par Fincher: «The Social Network» ainsi est intitulé le nouveau projet de David Fin.. http://bit.ly/4yS8Lm
  • Tekiano - Actu -- Facebook filmé par Fincher: «The Social Network» ainsi est intitulé le nouveau projet de David Fincher.... http://bit.ly/5b5IfA
  • stuwillis - I love listening to Steven Soderbergh. He thinks how I'd like to think. Ps David Fincher is shooting facebook on a RED with an Epic sensor
  • MetromixCLTV - David Fincher is making a FaceBook Movie... with Justin Timberlake in a lead role? What is going on here?
  • HopeEmily - RT @poniewozik: The Social Network, a Sorkin/Fincher film about the founding of Facebook. What part of that does not sound like parody? ...
  • poniewozik - The Social Network, a Sorkin/Fincher film about the founding of Facebook. What part of that does not sound like parody? http://bit.ly/ktXOu
  • new_dada - i-auziti ce ne zice @adrianciubotaru Cool: David Fincher is shooting a film about the founding of Facebook called “The Social Network"
  • EduardDobre - RT @adrianciubotaru: Cool: David Fincher is shooting a film about the founding of Facebook called “The Social Network"
  • dislecsiliaq - RT @adrianciubotaru: Cool: David Fincher is shooting a film about the founding of Facebook called “The Social Network"
  • adrianciubotaru - Cool: David Fincher is shooting a film about the founding of Facebook called “The Social Network"

Get more information on topics relating to this story:


Related company news:
Facebook, Columbia Pictures
Related devices and services:
Facebook

Comments

Add a comment Inappropriate or promotional comments may be removed.

Add a comment

Click one of the three commenter types below. Member comments are added immediately once you confirm your email address. Anonymous comments are moderated by our editorial staff.

I want to comment as a new member an existing member anonymously

Email me

  

Comment Preview
Anonymous (9:13 AM on Sat Nov 21, 2009)

Preview your comment here.

Inappropriate or promotional comments may be removed. To create a clickable link, simply type the URL (including http://) and we will make a link for you. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags, but if you're into that kind of thing, you can use any of the following tags: b, i, strong, em, a (href only), p and br.