Chalk  this one up as one of those too good to pass up items. Yes folks that is Sergey Brin, one of the richest men in the world back when he was at Stanford and only dreaming of something called Google.

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I have absolutely no intention to go see the Facebook movie but it appears that Hollywood’s fascination with the power brokers of Silicon Valley isn’t done with yet.

Deadline has the breaking news that Michael London’s Groundswell Productions has teamed up with producer John Morris to acquire the rights to Ken Auletta’s book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.

Yes folks we are now going to have the chance to see the life story of Sergey Brin and Larry Page as they have Googlefied our world.

While the Facebook founder story being told in the upcoming David Fincher-directed The Social Networkrevolves around a group of Harvard pals who squabbled in success, the Google narrative plays out differently. Google was formed by the duo while they were Stanford Ph.D students who had ideas on how to make a better search engine. They founded Google on principles like “You can make money without doing evil” and “You can be serious without a suit.” London said the movie will focus on how they tried to hang onto their idealism as Google became a global phenomenon. The challenge for London and Morris is to find a handle on a success story that makes for compelling screen drama.

The only thing left is for them to do the movie in 3D.

Move aside Zuckerberg and Facebook – Sergey and Larry to get their own movie is a post from: The Inquisitr

Brin is one of six people slated to be on the first Space Adventures tourist trip to the International Space Station, according to an announcement made this morning. Brin evidently made a $5 million investment in the company, which likely helped land him the hard-to-secure spot. A normal ticket would be in the ballpark of $20-30 million.

Space Adventures is planning to use a Soyuz — a Russian spacecraft designed, oddly enough, by another guy named Sergey — to take paying customers on its own private missions to the ISS. So far, five space cowboys have dropped big dough on out-of-this-world journeys, but they’ve all been traveling with NASA. Brin’s trip would be the first private launch. He has mentioned the year 2011 as a target date.

In an interesting twist, NASA is apparently looking at using some seats on the Soyuz in the future as well — which could put Brin in an awkward position, given his company’s relationship with the space agency.

ZDNet’s Larry Dignan has some perspective into other potential problems that could arise, too, raising the question of whether Brin needs a “risk-limiting clause” in his Google contract.

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