After writing many masterful screenplays with fully memorable and quotable lines of dialogue, screenwriterAaron Sorkinis now poised to make his directorial debut.Deadlinereports Sorkin has optioned rights toThe Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down,a non-fiction bookwritten by the former presidential candidate's one-time aide. Sorkin will be directing from a script which he will be writing himself. Though no studio is attached yet, with all the buzz his scripts forThe Social NetworkandMoneyballgathered, you know someone will bite on this soon.
The story of his fall from the climb for the US Presidency swept headlines across the nation as a promising Democratic frontrunner found himself amidst a huge scandal after a tabloid revealed the married senator had fathered an illegitimate child with another woman. Despite lots of denial, Edwards eventually admitted to the affair which birthed a child and his career went all Humpty Dumpty. Sorkin will pick up the pieces and I'm sure he'll put together another stellar drama which he calls,"anextraordinary storyfilled with motivations, decisions and consequences that would have lit Shakespeare up."That's some hyperbole, but I wouldn't expect anything less.
However, we know the man is talented on the page, but can he bring those pages to life through the camera? We'll have to wait and see, but I'm hoping for the best. In addition to his stellar work on those forthcoming films (Sorkin's dialogue drives thefirsttwotrailers forThe Social Network, which are almost entirely audio only), Sorkin has also scripted two of my favorite dramas(Charlie Wilson's WarandA Few Good Men) and two of my favorite TV series ("The West Wing"and"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"). I'll be looking forward to anything with Sorkin's involvement, and we'll keep you posted as this political project project develops.
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