While a movie about the founding of social networking site Facebook sounds a bit dull, it’s actually more interesting than you’d expect. Indeed it’s a good enough story to have attracted The West Wing’s Aaron Sorkin to write a script based on the book, Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, with David Fincher directing.
Now the film, retitled The Social Network, has confirmed its main cast. As rumoured, Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield will be taking on the juiciest roles. Adventureland and Zombieland star Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, while Timberlake will be Napster co-founder Sean Parker, who became the networking site’s founding president. Andrew Garfield will play Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.
The movie will concentrate on the three founders and how Facebook was created on the Harvard campus in 2004, with the site’s overnight success suddenly making the trio incredibly rich and changing their lives forever. Indeed Zuckerberg became the youngest person ever on the Forbes 400 list, as he was worth over a billion at the age of only 24.
Fight Club director David Fincher is due to start shooting the movie in Boston next month.