It is time to save the whales. In Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Today, the development of a film treatment detailing the early years of the Greenpeace movement was announced. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) has been signed to direct the movie which will be produced by Jerry and Janet Zucker in conjunction with Aurelius Films. Perhaps taking a page from the critically-acclaimed The Cove (and its thrilling black-ops filmmaking) Janet Zucker envisions the film as a large-scale, elaborating, “Jon likes to make big adventure movies. And we’ve found that the best way to reach people’s hearts and minds is through entertainment. For details on the project, hit the jump.

Last June, Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball fell apart only three days before shooting was set to begin.  With Brad Pitt as the lead, Moneyball focused on the true story of how the Oakland Athletics became a competitive team by relying on statistics rather than the higher payrolls of their competitors.  It’s unlikely for a film to reach production so soon with a big name director and star and have the plug pulled at the last minute.  However, even though Soderbergh has moved on to other projects (including another one about baseball) Sony Pictures is still looking to move the process forward and meeting with several directors including Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer) and Bennett Miller (Capote).  Hit the jump to see if someone can finally hit this movie.

David Fincher’s “The Social Network” has now found its cast. According to a rumor that popped up on Facebook itself, Jesse Eisenberg has been cast as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Andrew Garfield will play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. The big surprise though, at least to me, is that Justin Timberlake has also supposedly been cast as the internet entrepreneur who was behind Napster, Sean Parker.  You can read some more about “The Social Network” when you hit the jump.

Remember when it was announced that Hollywood was going to be making a Facebook movie?  Everyone was, like, “What? Why? This is stupid.”   Do you guys also remember when it was later on announced a couple of weeks later that superstar writer Aaron Sorkin was going to be writing the script and everyone was, like, “Are you kidding me?”  Then, do you guys remember when David Fincher was brought on board to direct this Facebook movie and everyone was, like, “………..”   Well, this instantly infamous Facebook movie has now been given the greenlight and it will now officially be David Fincher’s next film.  To find out more about “The Social Network” and why it might be an amazing film follow me after the jump.

The saga of “Moneyball” continued today as Sony announced that Brad Pitt is still attached to star in the big screen adaptation of Michael Lewis’ baseball book.  After unceremoniously pulling the plug on the Steven Soderbergh helmed project just days before filming was set to begin, Sony has not only kept the film in development but has now enlisted the great Aaron Sorkin to redraft Steve Zaillian’s original script.  More after the jump…

Because Aaron Sorkin writing a movie about Facebook wasn’t crazy enough, Variety is now reporting that David Fincher is in talks to direct, “The Social Network” which is about the formation of the popular social networking site where you discover which you can learn which dead child star is most like your friend and that being a fan of a property means that you’re entitled to not only advertising regarding that product, but advertising towards everything even remotely related to the one thing you wanted to support in the first place.

It’s hard to ignore the combination of talent that Sorkin and Fincher would provide despite the premise which isn’t even so much a premise as it is a modern phenomenon that Columbia Pictures wants to make into a movie.  To simply have it be, as Variety reports, the story of how Mark Zuckerberg created the site in his sophmore year at Harvard, may not be enough.  But for minds like David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, it may turn out to be more than enough.