The Story Is Based On Three Separate, Conflicting Depositions
When writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin couldn’t turn to Facebook to see how the early days of the company played out, so he turned to three separate and conflicting depositions that were taken over the course of two lawsuits filed at roughly the same time. In the video “How I Wrote The Social Network,” Sorkin explained that even though the defendant (Mark Zuckerberg), the plaintiffs, and the witnesses all swore an oath to tell the truth, they each told very different versions of the story, which made things exciting:
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