Poking Mark Zuckerberg's 500 Million Friends
UPDATE
Poking Mark Zuckerberg's 500 Million Friends: The Social Network's Trailer Arrives
THE TRAILER FROM THE UPCOMING UNAUTHORIZED BIOPIC OF FACEBOOK FOUNDER Mark Zuckerberg has hit the 'net.
Like an aged snapshot, the stylized two-and-a-half minute tease for The Social Network makes life's events more poignant than you remember. And it wastes no time framing Zuckerberg as a conniving opportunist with an outsized ego.
"I need to do something substantial in order to get attention of the clubs," says Jesse Eisenberg, in the role of Zuckerberg. "Because they're exclusive and fun and they lead to a better life."
The movie's adapted from Ben Mezrich's book, The Accidental Billionaires – The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which details the founding of the social media behemoth. The movie's makers aren't pretending that this isn't Zuckerberg's story -- "presumabling relying on the fact that Zuckerberg is a public figure and won't have a case for libel," according to one legal blogger. "How else to explain the brazen use of real names and regurgitated conversations that couldn't possibly be confirmed by either the author of the book or Sorkin?"
Stabbing his rich Harvard friends' in the back has paid off handsomely for Zuckerberg: Facebook is now estimated to be worth $11 billion.
Will Zuckerberg's 500 million friends show up at the box office? Bet on it.
Tags: Film
