“The Farnsworth Invention,” Aaron Sorkin’s new play opening on Broadway next week, was originally intended for the silver screen. But Sorkin, whose dialogue-driven style is, at heart, closer to theater than TV or film, decided to write his Farnsworth script using the stage-play format of Final Draft software and soon he and his agent were buying back the movie rights from New Line and preparing for his return to Broadway. The topic, the invention of the television and its champions’ utopian vision for it, is one that Sorkin certainly has the perspective to mine for the outmost of irony. But he considers it “an optimistic story about the spirit of exploration.” The movie rights for the play have already been sold, so Sorkin will have to consider how to get his play back into the screenplay format. (source: NY Times)