Earlier this year, reports of a new movie by Columbia Pictures about social networking started to surface. Mashable.com asked, “More than 200 million of us are active Facebook users, but will that social networking addiction convert to a blockbuster movie? Columbia Pictures sure hopes so, as it advances its plan to bring Facebook’s founding story to the big screen.”
The movie, titled “The Social Network”, already had some big names attached to it. Talks were in progress to put David Fincher, the director of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in the director’s chair, according to Variety. And Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of A Few Good Men, The American President, Malice, and Charlie Wilson’s War, penned the script, based on the book ““The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal.“.
Then this past week, the L.A. Times reported that the latest addition to “The Social Network,” is pop star Justin Timberlake, slated to play Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster (not Sean Fanning, the music site’s creator, just so we’re clear) and Facebook’s first president. We see the musical connection, and we’re okay with it.
Timberlake will play alongside Jesse Eisenberg of “Adventureland” and “The Squid and the Whale”, who will take on the role of Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was 19 when he created “The Facebook” in his humble Harvard dorm room.
The film will apparently a techno version of VH1’s “Behind the Music”, teaching us all that fame and fortune, especially  when acquired with internet speed, is not all just fun and games.
Tags: Facebook, Internet Speed, Social Networking