Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In": The Movie

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg, the adult in Facebook's corporate playpen, has caught Hollywood's attention. Sony Pictures recently purchased the film rights to Sandberg's prosaic assertion of female business empowerment, Lean In, according to a story originally reported by Deadline Hollywood and picked up by siliconvalley.com.

It's not unusual for a studio to purchase rights to a book. However, a post-millennial manifesto doesn't seem quite in tune for Sandberg's generational movie-going peers, unless the film becomes a pep talk about capital acquisition, technological "progress," and the pleasure of power. We'll see.

Interestingly, the rights to Lean In belong to Sandberg's Lean In Foundation. This is the same foundation that searched for an unpaid editorial intern, until Lean In was outed. Suddenly, money materialized for an intern. I wonder if that episode will make Lean In: The Movie's final cut.