Jun 24 2009Facebook Movie Has Popular Director and Generic Title
As if news of Aaron Sorkin writing Facebook: The Movie wasn't perplexing enough, Variety has put up a story that adds two more peculiarities to the mix.
The entertainment magazine is reporting David Fincher, the man responsible for Se7en, Fight Club, and the recently-acclaimed-but-also-kind-of-boring The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, is in early talks to direct the film. And, in an even more baffling move, Columbia is apparently not putting "Facebook," a word that registers in obnoxious buzz-worthiness just under "Twitter," in the title. Rather, the studio is going with the intensely-generic The Social Network.
What? Why even pay for the rights to Facebook if you're not even going to use the word? Might as well buy the Twitter story and call the film "Service Your Friends Use to Tell You How 'Yummy' Their Stupid Vegan Sandwich Was."
And, more importantly, with The Social Network taken, what kind of equally-nondescript title is the straight-to-video knock-off going to use now? The Community Nexus? The Acquaintance Lattice? Friendship Dot Com? Someone really screwed the pooch on this one.
Reader Comments
1. Facebook - June 24, 2009 2:38 PM
You like this.
2. Rod-Man - June 24, 2009 2:40 PM
This is a bad idea in general and I'd be disappointed in Fincher if he directed it. I respect him so far, I hope he doesn't ruin it.
3. Stuey - June 24, 2009 2:45 PM
WTF??? How can they possibly make a movie about Facebook or Twitter?
4. Asian Man - June 24, 2009 2:53 PM
i just threw up in my mouth a little
5. Pat - June 24, 2009 3:28 PM
From "Rachel Getting Married" to this...?
6. wendy - June 24, 2009 3:55 PM
I was looking forward to Facebook: The Movie: The Game.
7. Jerry - June 24, 2009 5:45 PM
Anyone buying tickets to this crap has too much money and not enough gray matter.
Or not enough gray matter and someone else's money.
In which case, maybe they have plenty of gray matter since they got someone else's money.
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9. Rebel664 - June 24, 2009 7:59 PM
Pooch, thats a funny word
10. Darth - June 25, 2009 4:02 AM
For my part on they put Red Bull in the title.Good luck to them!
11. Galtacticus - June 25, 2009 4:18 AM
'The Social Network' will hit a much bigger audience than 'Facebook'.People don't like to confess color in general.
12. frank - June 28, 2009 10:25 PM
Aw, fuck, I've got a massive boner for Sorkin and Fincher, so I'll see it.