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Oct 1, 2010 · With Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Dustin Fitzsimons. As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
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- Biography, Drama
- David Fincher
- 2010-10-01
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On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later ...
- Shia LaBeouf Turned Down The Role of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.
- The Social Network Wasn’T Filmed at Harvard.
- David Fincher Did Sneak One Shot of Harvard Into The Social Network.
- Natalie Portman Gave Aaron Sorkin The Inside Scoop on Harvard.
- Armie Hammer and His Body Double Went to Twin Boot Camp For The Social Network.
- The Social Network's Tagline Was Changed at The Last minute.
- Fight Club’S Tyler Durden (Kind of) Makes A Cameo in The Social Network.
- The Real Mark Zuckerberg Wasn’T A Fan of The Social Network.
- A Sequel to The Social Network Is Not Out of The question.
When Transformers star Shia LaBeouf turned down the role of The Social Network’s lead character, Jesse Eisenberg was hired to play Mark Zuckerberg instead. Superbad's Jonah Hill was another star who came close to being cast in the movie, in his case as Napster founder Sean Parker; ultimately, Fincher decided Hill wasn’t right for the role and cast ...
Harvard University is integral to the legend of Facebook, and setting the first half of The Social Network there was non-negotiable. Filmmakers ran into trouble, however, when attempting to get the school's blessing. The 1970 adaptation of Love Story been shot there, and damaged the campus; the school has reportedly banned all commercial filming on...
To convince the audience that they were indeed seeing Harvard, Fincher couldn’t resist sneaking in a shot of the campus’s iconic architecture. When Jesse Eisenberg runs across Harvard Square (which is not on Harvard property) in the beginning film, some nearby arches (which are on Harvard property) appear in the background. Fincher got the lighting...
Natalie Portman attended Harvard from 1999 to 2003, briefly overlapping with fellow star alum Mark Zuckerberg. While enrolled, she dated a member of one of the university’s elite final clubs, which are an important part of The Social Network’s plot. When she learned that Sorkin was writing the screenplay for the movie, she invited the writer over t...
Armie Hammer is credited as playing both Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, but he wasn’t acting alone in his scenes. Josh Pence was cast as a body double and Hammer’s face was digitally pasted over his in post-production. For every scene where both twins appear on screen, Hammer and Pence played separate Winklevi, and then they would swap roles and sho...
For The Social Network’s main poster, designer Neil Kellerhouse made Jesse Eisenberg’s face the focal point. Over it, he superimposed the memorable tagline: “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” Originally, the text read “300 million friends,” but it was changed under the assumption that Facebook would hit half a bill...
Sharp-eyed viewers may have noticed the Easter egg David Fincher snuck into The Social Network. In the scene where Mark Zuckerberg is checking someone’s Facebook to cheat on a test, the name “Tyler Durden” can be seen in the top-left corner of the profile. Tyler Durden is the name of the narrator’s alter ego (played by Brad Pitt) in 1999’s Fight Cl...
The Social Network doesn’t paint Mark Zuckerberg in the most flattering light, and unsurprisingly, the real-life Facebook founder wasn’t happy about it. Following the movie’s release, he called out its “hurtful” inaccuracies, specifically citing the fictional Mara Rooney character that’s used as his motivation for founding the website. But even he ...
The Social Network premiered when Facebook was less than a decade old, and the story of the internet giant has only gotten more dramatic since then. Since settling lawsuits with Eduardo Saverin and the Winkelvoss twins, Facebook has been battling scandals related to privacy issues and its influence on the 2016 election. The last 10 years have provi...
- Jack Walters
- Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is the same that’s most commonly associated with Facebook, and for good reason. The entire project was initially his idea, and he’s the one that developed most of the site’s code.
- Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin. Andrew Garfield has starred in many great movies, but none of them have offered him a role quite as memorable and iconic as Eduardo Saverin.
- Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker. Although he’s more famous for his musical career, Justin Timberlake actually provides a great performance in The Social Network as Sean Parker, another tech genius that plays an integral part in molding Zuckerberg’s journey throughout the film.
- Armie Hammer as The Winklevoss Twins. Armie Hammer plays both Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in The Social Network, two of Zuckerberg’s fellow students, who believe that he stole their idea and transformed it into the site that would later become Facebook.
Sep 23, 2010 · In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media phenomenon Facebook — 500 million active ...
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Novel. Aaron Sorkin. Screenplay. In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook.
