Facebook: The Movie
You’re David Fincher. You blitz the 90s with films like Se7en & Fight Club and you brought in the last 10 years well recieved films including Zodiac & Benjamin Button. You’ve made films enjoyed by everyone from critics to the paying customers to the cult fanboys.
So where can you go in 2010? Well of course you accept an offer from Kevin Spacey to direct a film he’s producing. This film just so happens to be about the creation of everyones favourite thing since Myspace.
The Social Network will be coming out this October and its about the creation of Facebook. It’s not a documentary. It’s a comedy. Not only is it a comedy, it’s a drama/comedy.
Playing the god of Facebook, Mark Zuckerburg, is Jesse Eisenberg. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, Eisenberg has shown up lately as star in Zombieland & Adventureland. Also in the cast is Justin ‘yes he can actually act’ Timberlake as the President of Facebook.
Will it be any good? of course with a basis as culturally driven as Facebook, most people would assume this film is just cashing in on the next big thing (which could easily be thrown out the door as easy as MySpace was). However, one of my favourite actors, Kevin Spacey is coproducing this and assures us “The Social Network is probably going to be a lot funnier than people might expect it to be.”
Is the creation of facebook good enough to make a film about it? apparently it is, with the history of facebook being amazingly corrupt. This film should make money. Millions have facebook, and a good percentage would probably like the idea of seeing a film based on it.
