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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 29 Aug 2008 at 17:45

West Wing creator making Facebook the movie

Believe us whatever expression of disbelief you're wearing, we're with you. Yet somehow the award-winning writer of the utterly brilliant The West Wing is going to write the script for a film based on the creation of Facebook, which will no doubt involve walking and talking simultaneously, snappy jargon nobody understands and lots of people being super poked by strangers. It could be good, but then...

"I'm asleep before he's even started filming. A box office smash is unlikely," notes TimoGrunt.

Amazingly, Grunthos managed to be even more scathing.

"It's bad enough having to use the silly site for those that seem incapable of communicating in any other form, let alone watch a movie about how it came about! Major snore!"

And finally, to milliganp, who came closest to a sensible suggestion with the following: "They were going to make a film about Boo.com's infamous demise but realised that Shakespeare had already done hubris and Danny De Vito had done 'Other Peoples Money'."

And speaking of other people's money we're off to pester strangers into buying us a pint. See you next week.