You ask the same question about the founding of facebook. In Fincher we trust.
That was an AWFUL idea for a film.
Just because he could make the creation of a phone book interesting doesn't mean it's a good idea for a movie.
"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Frankenstein
