Facebook: The Movie in the Works

Sam Gustin says: Aaron Sorkin is developing a movie about the creation of Facebook for Sony Pictures, to be produced Scott Rudin, a Sony spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

Sorkin made arcane public policy debates seem like the stuff of high drama in The West Wing. Can he do the same for the programming nerds who launched Facebook from a Harvard dorm room?

Of course, to hear some tell it, the story of Facebook's origins is one of back-stabbing, betrayal, an ultimately, mind-boggling wealth...

As part of his research, Sorkin has launched a Facebook page, which was first noticed by the Hollywood blog Defamer on Tuesday.

It was unclear whether the Sorkin Facebook page was legit until Rudin confirmed his involvement to NYMag.com Wednesday. A Sony spokesperson later confirmed that account to the L.A. Times and Portfolio.com

Facebook, meanwhile, is playing it coy.

In a statement, company spokesperson Brandee Barker said: "We are routinely approached by writers and filmmakers interested in telling the Facebook story or the stories of the more than 100 million people who use Facebook to share and make the world more open and connected. At this point, we have not agreed to cooperate with any film project, but we are flattered by the interest."

The next question, of course, is who should play Mark Zuckerberg.