Well, that didn’t take long. With all the positive buzz surrounding David Fincher’s forthcoming Facebook story, “The Social Network,” it was pretty much only a matter of time before some other popular website got picked up for a movie. Hell, if board games (“Battleship”) and Internet phenomenons (“Shit My Dad Says”) can be turned into celluloid, why not websites?
Anyway, the grand-daddy of them all Google is going to take a bow on your local multiplex. The film will be based on the Ken Auletta book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It that “tells the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and the fast rise of the juggernaut web business that made them billionaires.” While there probably won’t be the sort of college-level debauchery hinted at in Fincher’s film, the crux of the film will surround Brin and Page as they “tried to hang onto their idealism as Google became a global phenomenon” and also presumably as they fell asleep on beds made out of piles of money.
Groundswell Productions and investor/producer John Morris are producing the film. No word on directors and actors yet but we would imagine “The Social Network” is the benchmark for talent being sought. [Deadline]
