Aaron Sorkin, who created popular shows like The West Wing, Studio 60, Charlie Wilson’s War, Sports Night and several others, is creating a movie about social networking site Facebook.

Sorkin, who also scripted recent Tom Hanks film Charlie Wilson’s War along with the Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson feature A Few Good Men, announced his latest movie project to users of the social networking site by launching a group page on Facebook called Aaron Sorkin & The Facebook Movie. Sorkin has also set up his own private profile page on Facebook.

“I’ve just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented,” Sorkin wrote in his introduction on the group page.

“I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I’ve started this page.”

The film is likely to look at how, following its creation in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg in his university dorm, Facebook quickly became an internet, business and social phenomenon with more than 100 million users worldwide.

Now, now, now! A movie about a social networking site? Will you be able to add your friends and high school acquaintances as you watch it? If so it might work. Otherwise I think works like this are called documentaries.

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