Facebook’s Dark Origins Make For A Promising Looking Movie
After the second teaser trailer, which was basically just visual status updates and bits of dialogue from the film, I got real interested in “The Social Network“. Now, the first full trailer is going out attached to Warner’s “Inception”, and it looks equally as engrossing.
Based on Ben Mezrich’s (“Bringing Down The House“, “Busting Vegas“) book “The Accidental Billionaires“, “The Social Network” tells the (questionably) true story of the creation of social networking’s killer app Facebook. As any Facebook fan could imagine, it appears to make a villain of Facebook uber-lord Mark Zuckerberg, as the book was written with the cooperation of (allegedly) screwed-over co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
The film has a solid list of creative contirbutors, too. Director David Fincher, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, producer Kevin Spacey, and stars Jesse Eisenberg (“Zombieland”), Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield (the new Spider-Man) all combine to make “Social Network” look to be the main upscale picture of the fall.
With its canny combination of a youth-culture cast, blue-ribbon creatives, and a subject that really cuts across a bunch of demographics, “The Social Network” might be an Oscar-bait movie that can BOTH make money and collect statues. Let’s take a look, shall we?
“The Social Network” opens on October 1, 2010.
(And, BTW, though the movie’s official site does use an Open Graph recommendation widget, the movie is not listed or shown on Sony’s official movie Facebook page. And the only Facebook page for the actual movie “looks” like a fanpage. Curious.)
July 16th, 2010 at 10:22 am
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