Aaron Sorkin--who brought us the reliably Democratic The American President, The West Wing, and Charlie Wilson's War -- has spent the last couple years working on adapting odd-ball non-fiction to the silver screen: He wrote the Facebook movie and the screenplay for a film based on Moneyball. But instead of moving on to projects about Twitter or The Tipping Point, Variety reports that Sorkin may be returning to his roots, with a movie about the founding of . . . wait for it . . . Greenpeace. The jokes write themselves. (That said, early West Wing is gold and we all owe Sorkin a debt of gratitude for making Allison Janney and Richard Schiff household names.)
Jonathan V. Last
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Aaron Sorkin--who brought us the reliably Democratic The American President, The West Wing, and Charlie Wilson's War -- has spent the last couple years working on adapting odd-ball non-fiction to the silver screen: He wrote the Facebook movie and the screenplay for a film based on Moneyball. But…
Jonathan V. Last · November 13, 2009
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