The Social Network – Trailer
Posted by Stephen Fairbanks on July 22, 2010
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
David Fincher, a man who doesn’t get out of bed unless it’s something to do with tortured drug addicts chewing off their own tongue [Seven]…
or grown men smashing eighteen shades of shit out of each other’s faces [Fight Club] has now turned his significantly macabre talents to… Facebook. Like… WTF?
The film charts the inception (I actually saw Inception last night – it was amazing) of the world’s most powerful social networking platform in the halls of Harvard through the bickering and lawsuits and up to the eventual millionaire-ness of creator Mark Zuckerberg, played by eveyone’s favourite geeky actor who isn’t starring in the up-coming Scott Pilgrim film (or Jesse Eisenberg to his friends).
I take it by the choral version of Radiohead’s Creep in the trailer, Zukerberg may not be portrayed as being ‘all that’, nor can I see there being too many MEGALOLs. Should be interesting though.
Reader Comments
Who ever made that trailer deserves a medal. When I first heard about ‘the social network’ I thought it was a horrible idea. Clearly the movie studios have run out of ideas – commissioning this, monopoly & battle ships the movie?!
Then they came out with this fantastic, compelling trailer which I’ve watched two or three times. Which saying something considering how much I despise Mark Zuckerberg. The music is by the Scala & Kolacny Brothers with the Belgium girls’ choir – they’ve released 5 studio albums with different covers of popular songs. Well worth a listen.
I just know when I come out of this film I’ll be thinking that Jessie Eisenburg makes a better Mark Zuckerberg than the real Mark Zuckerberg.
Here’s hoping the film lives up to the trailer.
Scala & Kolacny / Begium Girls’ Choir? Did you know off the top of your head Steve? I’m impressed / slightly worried about you.
I heard yesterday that Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct a re-make of The Haunted Mansion. Eddie Murphy is going to be pissed.
Alas no! I had to go and check in my music library to see what the composers were called. They’ve done some cracking covers. Although the ‘touch myself’ is a little creepy.
Apparently Eddie Murphy only makes films his children would like. Just wait until his son hits puberty!