The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin may be one of the top ranked screenwriters alive in Hollywood today, but he is now admitting that he just isn’t that great as a film director.
\n\nSorkin recently took the stage at the Newport Beach Film Festival to talk about his long and award-filled career. During the talk, he noted that he has found directing to be a harder challenge than he thought it would be, adding that he does not feel that he is learning well even with experience.
\n\nSorkin’s latest screed against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Reckoning, is not doing well at the box office, despite the success of his previous effort, The Social Contract. The sequal film is flopping with a 54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and brought in a mere $15 million at the box office against a $42 million production budget.
\n\nOf course, Sorkin has had considerably better luck with screenwriting. He is the pen behind hits such as A Few Good Men, The American President, Charlie Wilson’s War, among others, not to mention his turns at the helm of the 1990s hit TV series, The West Wing.
\n\nBut while he feels he “gets” screenwriting awfully…
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