14 DAY TRIAL // The 'Facebook movie' aka The Social Network isn't even out yet and it's already starting to look like the beginning of a trend. Apparently, a Google movie is now in the books though it's still very early to tell if an actual movie will be made.
According to Deadline, Michael London's Groundswell Productions along with producer John Morris have acquired the movie rights to the book "Googled: The End of the World As We Know it" by New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta.
The idea is to make a movie, based on the book, depicting the rise of Google focusing on its two founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The story will center around the struggle to maintain the company's principles as it grows into a multi-billion dollar business with interests in many, many markets.
"It's about these two young guys who created a company that changed the world, and how the world in turn changed them," London told Deadline.
"The heart of the movie is their wonderful edict, don't be evil. At a certain point in the evolution of a company so big and powerful, there are a million challenges to that mandate," he added.
Google started out as a scrappy startup created by the two while they were still in college. The company's engineering prowess along with mottos such as "Don't be evil" made it stand out and the image it created helped it become successful as much as anything else.
Still, while the story may be interesting for those in the business it hardly makes it worthy of a mainstream movie. Facebook's early days were much more dramatic than Google's and even that wasn't enough.
The Social Network, which is coming out this fall, based on the book The Accidental Billionaires, is known to stray quite a bit from the truth and is considered more a work of fiction rather than an accurate account of what happened.