Facebook, Starring Brad Pitt As SuperPokey Man

Facebook (the site) becomes Facebook (the movie).

A Facebook movie? Wasting another two hours on Facebook, this time for $13?

Hollywood heavy-hitter, Aaron Sorkin, has agreed to write a film for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about the social networking giant. Sorkin's writing credits include everything from The West Wing to A Few Good Men to Charlie Wilson's War, but what's odd here is that Sorkin is also famously tech-illiterate.

To prep for the project, Sorkin started a Facebook group. On it he writes, "I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.)"

Research? Good. Writing about new media when you don't know the difference between a "poke" and the "wall"?  How corporate.

Then again, all the behind-the-scenes Facebook drama (legal battles, controversy over who actually came up with the idea, why you can never get off the effing site) could make for good dramatic material. We'll probably catch it later on YouTube.