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David Fincher's The Social Network

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This just seems a really odd choice for David Fincher and I wished he'd have gone for something less run of the mill (I can't quite imagine the creation of Facebook is going to be filled with murder, mystery and the like). That said, it's based on The Accidental Billionaires - A Tale of Sex, Genius, Money and Betrayal so who knows what he'll end up doing with it. Furthermore, it's been adapted by Aaron Sorkin, who's is no first time screenwriter, so who knows hows what we'll end up with. The Facebook idea might not be screen-worthy but them getting to that point could well be.

Story originated from Slash film & Variety

Variety has confirmed a casting rumor report from last month for David Fincher big screen adaptation of The Social Network. Jesse Eisenberg has signed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (how perfect is that casting?), Andrew Garfield is set to play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and Justin Timberlake will play internet entrepreneur Sean Parker (Napster). Production will begin next month in Boston and later move to Los Angeles.
Last month we learned that Columbia Pictures had given the film an official greenlight, a rumored $47 million budget.

Based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Social Network tells the story of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Facebook. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, and the 162-page first draft has been described as "Unpredictable, Funny, Touching and Sad."

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Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university's Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university's computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university's servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.

What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo's and Mark's different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

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The best thing about Southland Tales was The Rock - and that says everything.
I just saw him in a bit of Black Snake Moan, and he was shockingly rubbish.

See I really enjoyed Southland Tales. Nowhere near the car crash I was led to believe. I thought Timberlake was pretty decent as the narrator and the guy on the big gun watching the sea. I will agree with you though, in that Dwayne Johnson was the one of the best things in it. And by that, I thought he was pretty decent, especially at the shooting scene where he loses it completely.

But this isn't about Southland Tales. So sorry to drag it off topic.

And not seen Black Snake Moan so can't comment on that.

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What an incredibly pointless project. His next film should be "David Fincher - where did it all go so wrong?"

Hey, given that Sony Pictures pulled the rug from underneath him on that baseball movie, I'm pretty impressed he managed to get this production started. This could be a really compelling and interesting tale of a multi-billion dollar company run by 23 year old.

The film is probably going to clean up big time, unless it gets really bad reviews. Believe me, I'm really hoping it'll be as strong a Zodiac.

Thing is, how can a Hollywood Studio greenlight a film about a guy who's still alive and a company that can hire an army of lawyers to rip them a new one in the courts? Which ever TV network made the movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" about Jobs and Bill Gates, how did they protect themselves? It certainly took artistic license in how they portrayed two extremely rich living people, both in a pretty bad light. Gates as an almost autistic, two-faced liar and Jobs as a pretty shitty father and husband.

Are you on safe ground if there's been previous court cases and legal actions about key stuff depicted in a film? Will that be the factor that'll put you in the clear?

Cos if that's the case, let's make the Bruce Everiss biopic :unsure:

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Which ever TV network made the movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley"

I'd forgotten all about this film. Considering it was a made-for-TV movie it was surprisingly good.

Looks like it has potential but I'm still struggling to see why both Fincher and Sorkin were interested enough in it in the first place.

The trailer reminds me of the documentary Startup.com which was about the rise and fall of govWorks.com.

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Urgh... Why has this been made? It looks like one giant ego trip ride. I use facebook but I have no interest in this love in.

Well from what I hear it's far from a love-in. Ego trip for who? Zuckerberg doesn't even want this film to come out because he says it's riddled with inaccuracies.

I think it'll bomb.

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Well from what I hear it's far from a love-in. Ego trip for who? Zuckerberg doesn't even want this film to come out because he says it's riddled with inaccuracies.

I think it'll bomb.

So what exactly is the point of it? It's hardly a story that needs telling is it? Bloke sets up successful website. Well golly, he's a real pioneer.

I fear I'll be adding Fincher to the John Carpenter List of Directors Who Completely Lose It.

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So what exactly is the point of it? It's hardly a story that needs telling is it? Bloke sets up successful website. Well golly, he's a real pioneer.

Maybe it is a story that needs telling because you seem to be unaware of the controversy regarding HarvardConnection.com / ConnectU.

Or did you leave that bit out intentionally? Because you could argue that most stories don't need telling if you're going to be that reductive.

I thought Benjamin Button was overly sappy and basic but I think Fincher has earned enough goodwill before he's labeled the next John Carpenter.

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So what exactly is the point of it? It's hardly a story that needs telling is it? Bloke sets up successful website. Well golly, he's a real pioneer.

I fear I'll be adding Fincher to the John Carpenter List of Directors Who Completely Lose It.

There's a very interesting/controversial background so yeah I think there's a good reason for it. I just don't think anyone really cares about the history except a very small number of geeks.

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