The film adaptation of the book “The Accidental Billionaires” written by Ben Mezrich has finally been given the greenlight from Columbia Pictures. The film, which has been retitled “The Social Network”, like the book is about the creation of Facebook.
When I first heard about ‘the Facebook movie’ I groaned and thought it was a really dumb idea. Later I read more about the book and thought they might have an interesting story here and it was written by the same writer as “Bringing Down the House” (filmed as “21”), things were looking up. Then I found out that it was going to be produced by Scott Rudin, Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, Basically the same team that brought us “21”, a film that I really enjoyed. I got really excited when I found out that Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”, “The American President”) was writing the screenplay, Sorkin is one of my favourite writers. Wow, now I am really excited but still no greenlight fom a studio. Finally, as a stroke of brilliance, David Fincher (“Fight Club”, “Seven”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) is signed to direct. This is a dream team.
Well the film has now got its greenlight and production is set to start in October with a budget of $47 million. Now I wait with baited breath to find out who gets cast in this film. So far so good behind the camera, this film could be destroyed by a weak cast.
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