The Social Network to Open the NYFF

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It’s kind of old news now by web standards but it’s worth mentioning that the Social Network will indeed open the New York Film Fest, which runs from September 24 through October 10. ¬†It’s almost worth flying out to New York just to see that. ¬†I like this platform for the film, but this means it won’t be also hitting Toronto.

Writer Aaron Sorkin, it has been announced, will bring back A Few Good Men and The Farnsworth Invention for the Fall Broadway season, again, almost worth flying to New York for.

Although I have the script for the Social Network, I have stopped myself from reading it. ¬†I agree with Christopher Nolan who says that reading scripts spoil the finished product. ¬†I learned my lesson when I read Charlie Wilson’s War, another Sorkin script. ¬†And just because the Social Network is in David Fincher’s capable hands doesn’t mean that reading the script beforehand won’t put a movie in your mind that you can’t erase.