the elevator pitch

We all knew it was just bound to happen right? Well, the moment has finally arrived and a big-name producer / writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing and A Few Good Men) is currently writing a script that will center around the creation of Facebook. For those of you (probably only 1 person left in this world) who don’t know what Facebook is, it is the online network phenomenon that has swept across the globe attracting billions of users. The application is essentially the end-all for online communication where users can interact on many different levels in order to stay in touch with each other.

I won’t go into detail about Facebook because as I’m sure many of you are already aware of the power this application garners. Sorkin is now tasked to tell the story of how such an application came to be. I’ve done some research on the subject and found out that Facebook was actually initially created to help college students stay in touch. I’m assuming the script will focus around the creators and their troubles in starting such a huge business.

This is an amazing PR move for Facebook as they burst onto the scene a few years ago and their prowess in pop-culture is very slowly starting to slip away. The addition of networks like Twitter are slowly gaining prowess so I’m assuming the people behind Facebook see this as a way to stay in the limelight for a while. Sorkin on the other hand is an interesting choice to have pen the script. The West Wing was an amazingly successful television show, but it was a television show. He had multiple seasons to create drama and tell his story. Writing a feature film script restricts a lot of the story because of the time factor. It can be done well, as evidenced by some great films, but more often then not people walk away from the theater wondering if there was more to the story. Unlesss Sorkin can pull off an amazing script, I have a feeling people will walk away from a Facebook movie thinking there’s got to be more to it.

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