The Social Network (Fincher, 2010)

[shariqq]

Fincher is making the Facebook movie, which -- after the experiments he has been doing lately -- is, I think, his striving to match the tone of Fight Club.

The Social Network (15^th Oct)
David Fincher could make a movie out of a phonebook and make it interesting. So he does almost that – he's making it on "facebook". Not much is known about the movie, but we do know that it stars Justin Timberlake as the founder of the popular social-networking site. Don't doubt it - it still is David Fincher! (Se7en, Fight Club, The Game, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

In the movie, Jesse Eisenberg is playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake plays Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.

Well, we have a poster. I like this poster, the point it makes about what the movie is gonna be about.


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[ayaa1977]

The first teaser trailer:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/mWoUgftTj3Y&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/mWoUgftTj3Y&rel=1</a>

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2 things:

1-although it's been 3 years since the last Fincher movie Zodiac i feel like "wow another Fincher movie?" it feels so soon.

2-if this movie is about the rise of Facebook and it's opening in a few months then why it doesn't have a single advertisement on Facebook?!

[shariqq]

Is it just me, or does that teaser seem to be on the same blue-print as the teaser for The Dark Knight?

[ayaa1977]

2 things:

1-although it's been 3 years since the last Fincher movie Zodiac i feel like "wow another Fincher movie?" it feels so soon.

Have you forgotten about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? That was a Fincher film too.

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2 things:

1-although it's been 3 years since the last Fincher movie Zodiac i feel like "wow another Fincher movie?" it feels so soon.

Have you forgotten about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? That was a Fincher film too.

lool omg i can't believe i forgot that...it's so crappy i forgot about it hahaha

[ayaa1977]

lool omg i can't believe i forgot that...it's so crappy i forgot about it hahaha

You are exaggerating again. It was a good film, may be not as good as Zodiac, but good film nonetheless. 

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2-if this movie is about the rise of Facebook and it's opening in a few months then why it doesn't have a single advertisement on Facebook?!

The film is not endorsed by the makers of Facebook. Frat boy and youthful egoist Mark Zuckerberg is apparently not too thrilled about it stating "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." The book that the film is based on takes liberties with the truth and its not all factual, after all, its from the author of 21, though the script is by Alan Sorkin (A Few Good Men, Charlie Wilson's War). Still, looks lame.

[ayaa1977]

The film is not endorsed by the makers of Facebook. Frat boy and youthful egoist Mark Zuckerberg is apparently not too thrilled about it stating "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." The book that the film is based on takes liberties with the truth and its not all factual, after all, its from the author of 21, though the script is by Alan Sorkin (A Few Good Men, Charlie Wilson's War). Still, looks lame.

Despite how it looks, I wanna believe that that it is not just another a paycheck for Fincher, and that he saw something worth while in it. Beside Sorkin's scrip and the amount of young talents involves; Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, whom I really loved in Boy A and Red Ridding 1973, Joseph Mazzello, the kid from Jurassic Park who did a great work on HBO's The Pacific early this year, and even Justin Timberlake whom I liked many of his acting roles.

[shariqq]

This could be another two-movie deal for Fincher, this being the "commercial" movie he makes for the studio so that his other, off-beat movie gets funded.

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2-if this movie is about the rise of Facebook and it's opening in a few months then why it doesn't have a single advertisement on Facebook?!

The film is not endorsed by the makers of Facebook. Frat boy and youthful egoist Mark Zuckerberg is apparently not too thrilled about it stating "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive." The book that the film is based on takes liberties with the truth and its not all factual, after all, its from the author of 21, though the script is by Alan Sorkin (A Few Good Men, Charlie Wilson's War). Still, looks lame.

wow thanks for sharing this...why wouldn't the movie be endorsed by then.i mean for god sake if you are geek and you suddenly started a billion dollar business then someone like David Fincher wanted to make a movie about you then that's just the icing on the cake.anyways, i think we are gonna see a lot of lawsuits after the movie is released.

P.S. this movie reminds me of The Italian Job when they featured the dude who did Napster.

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why wouldn't the movie be endorsed by then.i mean for god sake if you are geek and you suddenly started a billion dollar business then someone like David Fincher wanted to make a movie about you then that's just the icing on the cake.anyways, i think we are gonna see a lot of lawsuits after the movie is released.

If you go by the title and especially the byline of the book on which this is based its "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal." Of course, the book is hokey and nothing more than cash in by its author, but if the teaser is anything to go by, its not going to show the makers of Facebook in a very positive light. Regarding lawsuits, they've already occurred. Google 'ConnectU'.

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http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=28262

[kaytee]

This is fucking genius...I guess the name Facebook is going to be used...

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Esw8F5_GE9s&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Esw8F5_GE9s&rel=1</a>