Aaron Sorkin -- the creator of The West Wing and Studio 60 and the screenwriter of The American President and Charlie Wilson's War -- is writing a movie about the founders of the popular social networking site Facebook.

This isn't just in the "idea" stage, either; the project is set up at Columbia, where Scott Rudin will produce. Rudin's a power producer who has two Oscar-bait movies coming out this fall, the Meryl Streep/Philip Seymour Hoffman drama Doubt and the Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet reunion Revolutionary Road.

Ironically, Sorkin embarks on the project without even knowing much about Facebook in the first place. On the Facebook Group he set up announcing the movie -- you can join it here -- he writes:

I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I've started this page. (Actually it was started by my researcher, Ian Reichbach, because my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years.) ... I honestly don't know how this works, which is why I'm here.