EW’s Fall Movie preview issue is the gift that keeps on giving (and one that just refuses to go online). Thanks once again to the avid reader who pretty much scanned anything remotely of note in the issue.
Here’s some new photos of David Fincher’s “The Social Network” which stars Jesse Eisenberg as the film’s lead, Facebook website creator, protagonist Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster and Plaxo, plus Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Dakota Johnson, Brenda Song, Joseph Mazzello (pictured above next to Eisenberg) and Andrew Garfield as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. He’s obviously already been cast as the new “Spider-Man” and sources say the actor blows people away in Fincher’s new film. Amy Pascal is the Sony head above both films which is perhaps why they’re keeping it in the family (and again why Rooney Mara has a good shot at the female lead in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”).
Fincher shrugs off that the movie is simply about Facebook. “Facebook is to this movie what bicycles are to ‘Breaking Away,'” he told EW. “It’s a part of what we’re talking about. But the movie is really about kids at Harvard and their wild dreams and ambitions, and how in some cases those are foiled.”
While some presume the film will simply be a condemnation of Zuckberg, who took control of Facebook in a rather ruthless manner, that doesn’t seem like it’s going to be the case. “The movie is really a balanced story told from three different points of view,” Eisenberg said. “It leaves the audience to make up their own mind.”
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin evidently suggested a “Rashomon”-like approach to the script. Producer Scott Rudin likens it to “All About Eve.” “You get five different ideas of Eve Harrington. It never has to quantify what is true.”
“The Social Network” arrives in theaters October 1 and makes its world premiere a few days earlier on September 24 at the New York Film Festival.
