Exposure: Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin came to prominence in 1989 with the smash Broadway play, A Few Good Men, which garnered him the John Gassner Award for an American play by a new playwright. His film adaptation a few years later, forever immortalized by a growling Jack Nicholson insisting American civilians “can’t handle the truth,” swiftly propelled Sorkin to Hollywood’s A-list for screenwriters. He followed up his courtroom drama (A Few Good Men earned Oscar, DGA and ASC nominations) with a string of notable feature films – Malice, The American President and Charlie Wilson’s War – and television series – Sports Night, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, functioning in many cases as both writer and executive producer. His most recent project, The Social Network, charts the founding and early days of Facebook and its notorious creator Mark Zuckerburg, a brilliant Harvard undergrad who ruffled many feathers on the road to making 500 million friends. Chris Wolski spoke with Sorkin about why he prefers to emphasize dialogue when creating a film template, and why he was glad William Shakespeare wasn’t in the running to write The Social Network script! Read more

Fighting For Attention

ICG writer Jon Silberg locks and loads (up with information) at Shane Hurlbut’s weekend long HDSLR Bootcamp. Photos by Ryan Strong Fritz. Read more

Friendsters

In their first theatrical re-teaming since Fight Club, Jeff Cronenweth, ASC and David Fincher recount the founding of the world’s most successful online network. By Chris Wolski / Photos by Merrick Morton Read more