What next, I hear you ask: Twitter movie? Short script on that one, I reckon. The Facebook Movie is happening, and the creators are doing their best to give it an actual hook and plot. Would you see a movie based on Facebook history, which is all of five years old?

Unfortunately the movie will not be based on the shadenlulz brought about by late-night drunk posting shenanigans, but instead will tell the story of the founding of Facebook. According to People online:

The proposed film, tentatively titled The Social Network, adapts Ben Mezrich's new book, The Accidental Billionaires, which documents the Web site's founding by Harvard students in 2004.

One aspect of the project that has piqued the curiosity of people who were ready to dismiss it is that Aaron Sorkin [A Few Good Men, The West Wing] is attached to write the screenplay. Sorkin even started a Facebook, which appears to be slammed. Sorkin writes:

I've just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented. I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)

Another bit that's got people excited is the movie is rumored to star the currently red-hot Shia LaBeouf or Michael Cera and David Fincher may be directing. Not everyone is thrilled, though, as Mashable says:

What we do know for sure, and from multiple sources over the past year, is that Facebook is displeased about the film and staff are unwilling to talk about it: the book it’s based on, Ben Mezrich’s “The Accidental Billionaires”, is not favorable to Mark Zuckerberg. And indeed leaked passages from the book seem to spice up the story to make it more captivating: were it truthful, of course, it may be a bit of a snoozer.

/Film discusses the possible controversy with more depth:

What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

Will over 200 Facebook million users guarantee some butts in seats? With the 3-D extravaganzas this summer and other distractions on the horizon by the time it is released next year, only time will tell.

Related Links:
Are You Interested in the Facebook Movie?
Facebook Angst (A blogger's personal experience)
There is Nothing Normal About Facebook

SJ also writes at I, Asshole and is guessing Mark Sanford is grateful to Michael Jackson today.