The Social Network News

The upcoming movie about Facebook's creation, entitled The Social Network, may have just landed a high profile director in David Finch.  According to Variety, Columbia is in advanced talks with Fincher, who last directed The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

The script, which is penned by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing), is about the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg to the 200 million member jugernaut the site has become.

So will a high profile director and a talented writer make this ridiculous premise for a movie watchable?

A movie based around the online social network, Facebook?!?

If Aaron Sorkin - the writer behind West Wing, The American President and A Few Good Men - weren't the mastermind behind such an idea, we'd laugh at it.

Sorkin actually made the announcement on his own Facebook page this week. Isn't that cute?

According to Variety, the movie will revolve around the creation of the site by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, along with the way in which it changed his life and the lives of those around him.