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That David Fincher Directed, Aaron Sorkin Scripted Facebook Movie Has A Cast Now!!
Merrick here...
THE SOCIAL NETWORK is busily locking its cast ahead of next month's production start.
Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.
...says Variety HERE, which goes on to offer a little more insight as to this film's focus.
You can get a fresh look at Eisenberg when ZOMBIELAND opens on October 2. Garfield was in two DOCTOR WHO episodes a while back..."Evolution of the Daleks" and "Daleks in Manhattan" (is that really an episode title?). He also appeared in LIONS FOR LAMBS, and can be seen in Gilliam's THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS. Timberlake is, well, Timberlake.
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No thanks.
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I'm fast-tracking my Twitter movie. Basically, you sit in a theater while I Tweet ohsoawesomelyclever short clips to the screen from my laptop. I swear, it'll be the best thing evah.
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Those are the real titans of tech. What the Facebook guys invented was a new way for people to waste time and for stalkers to track down exes.
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...Fincher is great, sooo...good luck?
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with Seth Rogen??? shit
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But if he is on board, I trust him. I don't think he would waste his time on something he didn't think was truly fascinating and would make for a good flick. Strange cast he put together...I can barely fathom Timberlake delivering Sorkin dialogue...but I'm sure he'll rise to the challenge. Love him or hate him, the kid has fucking talent out to wazoo. I believe in the power of Fincher. He made fucking Zodiac, the most criminally under rated and underseen masterpiece of the decade.
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already wrote about this in earlier talkback today....
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just asking...
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let's make a movie about it!
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I give up on society. Period.
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After Zodiac you choose to do this shit? Not to mention it's too fucking late anyways, the Facebook fad is dying already.
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Facebook is definitely on my very short list of film subjects that both Fincher AND Sorkin couldn't get me to give two shits about. Hey, next maybe Aranofsky and Cronenberg could finally get started on that Post-It Notes movie.
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Almost as good as Daleks on Broadway.
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Say it ain't so, Finch.
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This was supposed to be at the end of the idea list... right after the shampoo instructions movie. Somebody skipped ahead.
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Boy this had better be a step-up from Benjamin Buttocks.
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Do you get the vibe that Fincher thinks too much of himself? He thinks: "Gosh, ANYBODY could make a rollicking movie out of Fight Club. And Seven? Even if the director sucked there'd be enough of a story to pull them in."
So first he did Zodiac--a murder mystery with no real action and no real ending. Then Benjamin Butthole, based on a barely there story and a special effect idea.
Now he's got the engaging tale of a guy who stole an idea from his buddies, coded for three days, accidentally hit the zeitgeist and then did a shit ton of coke with the ballcap idiot from Napster.
From what I hear, the movie will be six hours long, two 3 hour movies released two months apart, the second in 3-D (for better sniffing shots). -
that was alright. But really Zodiac deserved all the nominations and attention that Benjamin Button got. And this film just sounds like absolute shit.
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...while people still give a shit about Facebook...
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...was a real lost opportunity.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:29:34 AM CDT
James Taylor has seen fire/rain and says, "FUCK FACEBOOK!"
by zombieheathledger
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Don't forget that Meatloaf was in Fight Club.
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This could be a great movie. It has one of the greatest directors working today and I trust his judgment. Just because everyone here is 40 years old and cannot relate to something that his huge with teenagers, doesn't mean that it cannot make for a compelling movie. The subject does not dictate the quality. It could be about two guys who invented a "widget" and still be good.
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Made entirely of clips from other films (most of them featuring Catherine Keener), edited together to tell the tale of the creation of the famous website (played by Jim Carrey).
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But fuck facebook and its money hungry owner. I all the hate I have toward facebook can be summed up in my love for AICN. Harry never sold out, that guy did...and facebook now is the result. There was a time when you actually had to be funny or interesting on Facebook. But now you just bombard your site with extras that it actually makes My Space look calm in comparison. Plus now you can't even put anything on facebook without the fear of it haunting you in the future.
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Flair: Just one more ridiculous thing you'll find on Facebook:The Movie!
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ITA. I'll kid the filmmakers, but the content will decide the film's fate, and there's a lot of talent involved with this film. It should be said that Facebook is pretty big with the 40+ crowd as well; I think age has less to do with the vitriol than standard internet douchery does.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:41:05 AM CDT
"There was a time when you actually had to be funny or interesti
by a_banned_apart
Must have missed that in the terms of service.
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http://tinyurl.com/lotq6t
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With Shia Lebeef as Tom!
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I sure hope that's not the case here. Maybe he just needs to make such a crap film, but one that will make tons of cash, so he'll get more money and creative freedom to try and make another Seven or Fight Club.
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yes, they will carry the hell out of a movie!I love Fincher and Sorkin more than anyone, but fucking hell...if they can make a good movie with those three as the leads, then they can do ANYTHING.
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I'm sorry to see that Fincher is working with him.
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My god that man must suck a mean dick.
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Dir. by Rupert Murdoch
Starring: The entire cast of Glee -
What I was about to say was "Why does Justin Timberlake have more money than me?"
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Sep 23, 2009 11:37:38 AM CDT
it's not about facebook...it's the creation of facebook
by itrainmonkeys
all the "facebook is boring, why does it get a movie" type comments are uselessThis movie won't be about status updates or wall posts or photos. It's going to be about college students working on a new platform for internet socializing. If anyone knows the real story about how Zuckerberg and friends made this up, and then Zuckerberg stole the idea and cut the others out it is actually pretty interesting. Zuckerberg was credited as the creator of Facebook and has fallen into millions of dollars. Of course now the other guys tried suing.
If this was a movie about hackers and program creators developing a new, exciting technology that Fincher was directing (but didn't have the name Facebook) many would probably be more interested in watching it. But because it says Facebook people bitch and moan. -
make a 4chan movie instead
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Like most things at the dawn of the 21st century. There's a couple of pretty funny parodies of a typical person's facebook page floating around online with things like, "Here's a photo of me and my hawt friends!" In all honesty, I used to be on there a lot (it's a great time waster), but found myself feeling depressed after using it sometimes. I actually think that's true of too much internet in general, but especially true of all the social networking services. They put you into a kind of reactionary state where you don't slow down and... I don't fuckin know, read a book or go for a walk. Things that put you back into the flow of real life. Anyway, I've stopped using it almost completely, except to occasionally post movie lines or jokes on family member's walls. I also think it's a good way to keep an open line of communication with work contacts if you're a freelancer in any kind of creative industry and never know where the next job might come from. I'm not even sure if any of this made sense... oh well. I loved Zodiac, found Button pretty flaccid and boring, and DO think Fincher thinks rather highly of himself. On a side note, what is it with directors of the last generation or so? I never get that impression from ANY director of Scorsese and Spielberg's generation (Bogdonavich being an exception, perhaps), and ESPECIALLY when you watch interviews with John Ford, Billy Wilder, or Truffaut. Even if the old-timers ARE in love with their own cleverness or feeling pretty smug, it never seems to come across. Not so with people like Tarantino, Fincher, David O Russell, Alexander Payne, etc.
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lol @ facebook. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Is also a great story, more parallels boogie nights than you would think. Can't wait for that to come out.
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Nobody is going to bother seeing this pointless crap in theaters. It seems more like a low-budget basic cable tv movie idea, on the same level as the Bill Gates/Steve Jobs movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (which was actually pretty good -- but not THEATRICAL good). This Facebook movie is destined to bomb big time at the box office.
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yes, it's a real title. those episodes are generally considered to be the weakest of that series/season. that Eisenberg kid's accent is wretched in those episodes. I thought he was a british dude trying to do an American accent. it's that bad...then, I saw "Lions for Lambs" and realized "no, he's just a shitty American actor". Fincher's work is great, but why he cast that guy is a real mind boggler.
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Yeah i know. Leno/Letterman only get a TV movie. Gates/Jobbs only get a TV movie. But The Facebook Guy (whose name I don't even fucking know, is he the retarded looking one sitting at a desk that everyone is friends with, Tom or something?) gets a fucking movie?
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...Can I Haz Cheezborger? The Story of LOLCats
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Making SNL interesting, why does he think he can take on Facebook? Would you like this published on your wall? No thanks.
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Not another movie directed by Apatow starring Seth Rogan. So I guess it could be worse.
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But I'm sure Fincher will make an interesting movie out of it somehow.
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has he completely lost his edge? i'm thinking the answer is yes.
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He's really turning out to be a very talented guy. I'm excited to see him working with a great director like Fincher.
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... was a much better movie about much more interesting people in a much more interesting time in a much more interesting place in tech than whatever this piece of shit turns out to be.
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A plea to David. Put yourself in the rarified air of Kubrick and Lean. Put your nose to the grindstone and do Rama already!
Do it. Do it now.
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Sep 23, 2009 2:10:43 PM CDT
Timberlake's casting is everything that sucks about hollywood
by industrykiller!
People cannot seriously thing this guy can act. Like AT ALL.The guy is a classically bad over emoter. A terrible actor. I'll never understand how every once in a while a middling talent with a cocky attitude will come along and, by sheer force of will and PR, convince people he's an artist. Even normally intelligent people. But they are wrong. Dead wrong. Timberlake has done nothing but make the pop culture landscape a shittier place since, well, since he was born, or grown, in the Disney factory. It should be insulting to actors that he so cavalierly tries to act. It's a joke. I won't be seeing this or any other film in which Timberlake attempts to act.
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Probably the weakest Dalek story on the new series. Daleks building the Empire State Building?
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Sep 23, 2009 2:16:31 PM CDT
Fincher just sent you a facebook movie!
by johndillingers20inchseveredcock
Fincher just sent you a facebook movie using the "Because no one demanded it" application.
Do you want to accept or deny this request?
You must allow the application access to your login information.
Pick 23 friends to send it to! -
reminds me of when blogging first started in the late 90's early 00's; just reading updates about how someone's day/night/life/society is that it makes you wanna beat them out of exsistence. oh the movie? If you guys read it, its about the creation of facebook not a movie about facebook.... which in honestly I'd pass either way. Why should I care when Avatar will be fucking my eyeballs on Blu Ray?
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You know what I'd rather read.....
You know what I'd rather read besides this facebook shit? Some geeks fanfic script of batman 4. I'd rather read that the Gosselins are gettin back together and having 6 more kids, than to read about a facebook movie. You know what i'd rather read than to read about a facebook movie? I'd rather read the biography of Miley Cyrus's teeth, than to read any news about a facebook movie. -
"What's in the box! What's in the box!" "Yo, it's my d..." you get the idea.
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Sean Parker was NOT a co founder. He was a consultant and president for Facebook NOT a creator..jesus fucking christ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker
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I just had to say it, sorry.
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They really need to fuck off with that.
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Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
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I mean, the topic is too obscure. Most (intelligent) people know who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs are, and what Microsoft, Apple and IBM are. Who the FUCK has any clues who Mark Zuckerberg is? If you're doing it, why not film the story of Yahoo and Google? Something a bit more interesting and important? Who the FUCK cares about Facebook? It's going to the PETS DOT COM hell anytime soon, anyway.
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I also can't stand Jessie Isinberg. He's got the personality of one of my dumps. Too dry for me anyway. Like BadMrWonka summed it up to a tee! "Michael Cera's stand-in, NSYNC, and who?"
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Check out the best of the worst of Facebook. Luckily, I have cool friends with interesting things to say, so I enjoy my time on Facebook.
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Sep 23, 2009 3:49:05 PM CDT
On other news, Rodrigo Santoro to start in ORKUT THE MOVIE
by ricarleite2
It will be five hours of brazilians taking pictures of themselves half naked.
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It sounds like something you would see in a plastic surgeons office.
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I C WUT U DID THAR1 INSTEAD OF SAYING 'FACEBOOK' YOU SAID 'LAMEBOOK'...BECAUSE IT'S LAME...HAHAHAHA THAT'S FUCKING GENIUS MAN...HOW DID YOU EVER COME UP WITH THAT...OMG I AM TWITTERING ALL MY FRIENDS ABOUT IT
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That is a real website you fucking idiot.
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Oh wait, no I haven't.
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If you would have read my post, you would have known lamebook.com is a website, not some stupid witticism invented on my part.
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I trust the Finch Man. Yet this is the first time i've doubted his judgement.
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Casting Timberlake in a movie is like the classic tree falling in the forest. If you cast him in a movie, does it really ever come out?
In all seriousness, why does Hollywood insist on giving him a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th shot at a film career? Half his movies went straight to DVD and the other half bombed.
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anyone who doesn't realize that facebook is a MAJOR cultural artifact for understanding this pivotally important upcoming generation is a top-shelf jagoff. this could be pretty interesting, especially if they do for social networking what "The Jerk" did for eye-glass novelties, and throw in a 300-meets-The Road Warrior epic battle scene.
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Sep 23, 2009 7:08:14 PM CDT
The thing about Timberlake is he's the kind of guy...
by industrykiller!
who clearly thinks manufactured charisma and hard work are a suitable replacement for honesty. You can see it in his work. I don't doubt he tries very hard, but he also doesn't seem to have any emotional well to draw from. It's like acting is less a way to express than a birthright of a guy who has never not been kinda famous. I mean fuck the guy has been ACTIVELY TRYING to be nothing more than famous for his entire life. I highly doubt he writes his songs, but if he does he has nothing more to sing about than being attracted to women in the club, so his big statement to the world over and over and over again is "Girl I think you are soooooo fine" and a cocky grin. That's not great architecture for an actor. And it reads. Watch him in Alpha Dog and tell me he is actually connected with that character and not just trying to redirect his charisma and mug. Every screenshot of him from that film is him grinning like a Cheshire Cat or with a grave, GRAVE, look on his face, you know just so me know he's fuckin' serious bro! Acting is the place where Timberlake's store bought confidence shoots across the Rubicon into baseless annoying arrogance. A guy with his kind of clout could make just about anything just by asking the studio, so why does he feel the need to do it when he clearly has absolutely nothing to say with the artform. And THAT, my friends, is the mark of a hack.
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I can't see why anybody would want to see a movie about the creation of facebook. And Timberlake being in it doesn't help either. I wonder how much Facebook is paying for this movie to be made.
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Casting of pop idols in Hollywood is 50 years old. Get the fuck over it already.
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I DEMAND IT!
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The origin of Facebook probably can make a good movie. But by Fincher? With Timberlake? They're better off getting whoever did that 21 movie. Waste of Fincher's talent.
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I don't love all his films, but I'd be amazed if this wasn't something worth seeing. What a bunch of whiny bitches on this board.
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I could give two shits and a squirt of piss about this!
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that the story of FB was so interesting. Who the heck owns the rights to Microserfs? Fincher should get Sorkin to adapt that - that book read more like a movie script anyway.
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...some people are on the money, attaching Fincher's sensibilities to certain things just doesn't work. BB was good, but toothless; I don't get how it's supposed to be a deep commentary on mortality just because he ages in reverse. Button seems more like Ron Howard territory or something.
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