Twitter Gets ‘Social Network’-Style TV Drama; Facebook-Inspired ‘Fakebook’ in Works
Posted on Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 by Angie Han
Social media is trending in Hollywood, apparently. Lionsgate TV has just acquired the rights to Nick Bilton‘s Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, about the drama-filled founding of the company. You can think of it as a small-screen, Twitter-based version of The Social Network, though producer Allison Shearmur prefers you don’t: “This series will be different,” she promised.
Meanwhile, Ineffable Pictures is putting an actual Facebook movie in the works, though this one is about a Facebook user, not its founder. Based on Dave Cicirelli‘s memoir Fakebook: A True Story Based on Actual Lies, it’ll follow a guy who reinvents himself on the network by posting wild, and entirely false, tales of his adventures. More about both projects after the jump.
