Soon I’ll be able to watch a movie about one of my daily habits – tagging photos, confirming “friend requests”, deleting invites to events 1,000 miles from me.
Facebook is getting its own biopic, and The Social Network’s trailer just hit the web. It’s all audio, with only the big visual reveal coming at the end. The trailer’s not spoiling much by informing us of Jesse Eisenberg‘s role as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. David Fincher directs, his latest since Benjamin Button. It’s slated for an October 1 release.
The tagline is genius in its simplicity: “You don’t get 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” Enemies like Canadian privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart? Doubt she’d make it into Zuckerberg’s adventure in “making the world a more open space” (as he professes in his profile).
Aaron Sorkin‘s script is rumoured to include Zuckerberg squaring off against a former Facebook co-founder who got squeezed out of the company when Zuckerberg met Sean Parker. Co-founder of Napster, Parker befriended Mark double-quick and soon became president of Facebook. A lawsuit seeks to tear apart friendships, business partners, shareholder agreements. The film won’t be all drama I assume there’ll be a few status-update jokes courtesy of Eisenberg, the poor man’s Michael Cera.
A Hollywood blogger reviewed the script and said Sean Parker is “a character that can become iconic if the film is made. The brash techy rock star revels in his own ego, and is a key player in why Facebook is on our computers today.” And who’s playing this rock star? Justin Timberlake, of course.
Facebook already dominates much of our media lives, so won’t The Social Network rake it in because we’re curious how this beast began? Or will we yawn at the idea of a movie about a web start-up’s extreme pwnage?
Another question comes to mind: If a movie based on Facebook is winning big buzz, what’s to stop the Harvey Weinstens of the world from producing flicks about Twitter, Digg or TechCrunch?[rssbreak]
