When we learned this morning that Aaron Sorkin, co-creator of “The West Wing,” is to write a film based on the founding of Facebook, we thought, great, a spin on the movie “1776.” To wit, a few white guys sitting in a room who, through their actions, would go on to change the world. The film is likely to focus on the founding of Facebook in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and the subsequent rise of Facebook to social phenomenon with more than 100 million users worldwide. Sorkin has set up a group page on Facebook called Aaron Sorkin & The Facebook Movie. A documentary on YouTube, titled “I Want My Three Minutes Back,” is scheduled for release this fall.
