After wrapping his Facebook founding drama, The Social Network, David Fincher is looking for his next project. The first is the chess drama Pawn Sacrifice (via Variety). We reported that the film is being produced by Tobey Maguire, who is also looking at the lead role. Fincher is attached to the Colombia Pictures’ film that tells the “life story the life story of American chess icon Bobby Fischer leading up to his historic world championship match against Boris Spassky.” Read the full story

New set pictures have popped up over at Coming Soon for David Fincher’s “Facebook movie” The Social Network. The pictures show Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckenberg and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, founding president of Facebook. The pictures aren’t official releases, being snapped on set. Click the image below to see the full-res versions over at Coming Soon. Read the full story

Box Office Mojo is reporting that David Fincher’s next movie about the creation of Facebook, The Social Network, has been pushed two weeks ahead of its original release date, October 15, 2010. The release date is now said to be October 1, 2010. One of the reasons this could be happening is due to the amount of movies being released that month. It opens next to David Gordon Green’s Your Highness and the Let The Right One In remake, Matt Reeves‘ Let Me In. It would get a head start against movies like Jackass 3D, Paranormal Activity 2, and Saw VII.

Are you interested in The Social Network? What about other films in October?

The list of the top unproduced screenplays in Hollywood is here via EW. Since 2004, Franklin Leonard has published the list which has included Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, and Inglourious Basterds. This year’s list, which includes 97 scripts with 311 people contributing to the ranking (up from 260 in 2008) is below. Read the full story

David Fincher’s The Social Network is currently shooting, but Variety reports they have just added another cast member. The star from I Love You, Man and Parks and Recreation, Rashida Jones will be joining Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield in Fincher’s latest. Coming Soon has also learned the $47 million budget film will be released October 15th, 2010. The film is based on Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal which you can find a synopsis of below:

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.

What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.

The Social Network hits theaters October 15th, 2010.

What do you think of Jones joining the cast? Looking forward to the film?

The UK’s Daily Mail has the very first look at Justin Timberlake on the Los Angeles set of David Fincher’s The Social Network, which chronicles the rise of Facebook. Timberlake plays entrepreneur Sean Parker (pictured left), the co-founder of Napster who had a part in starting up Facebook. I’m surprised how much he looks like him. The film also stars Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, Zombieland) as CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) as Eduardo Saverin, the Harvard business grad that co-created Facebook with Zuckerberg. Check out the picture below and a set visit report we received. Read the full story

/Film is reporting that David Fincher will be adapting the Max Ehrlich novel The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Production for this movie would start once Fincher completes his latest work based off the creation of Facebook, The Social Network. The script for ‘Peter Proud’ has been written by previous Fincher collaborator, Andrew Kevin Walker, who worked with him on Se7en. The novel was previously adapted in 1975 written by Ehrlich himself. Read the full story

The cast of David Fincher’s next film, The Social Network, which chronicles the rise of Facebook has been confirmed by Variety. Jesse Eisenberg (Adventureland, Zombieland) will play CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Justin Timberlake (Alpha Dog, Southland Tales) will play entrepreneur Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster who had a part in starting up Facebook and Andrew Garfield (Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus) will play Eduardo Saverin, the Harvard business grad that co-created Facebook with Zuckerberg.

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Variety reported today that director David Fincher (Fight Club) is in advanced talks to direct the Facebook film titled The Social Network. The film is being produced by Scott Rudin and written by Aaron Sorkin. The plot will apparently revolve around “the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 200 million members.” No other news has been released since.

I don’t know if this would work as anything other then a documentary. If it was a documentary in the vein of say Cocaine Cowboys it might be interesting to see. But I can’t see a drama coming out of the story of Mark Zuckerberg. With David Fincher attached we can all have some hope though.

What do you think of the new Facebook movie?

The list of directors for the upcoming Heavy Metal adaptation just got even better.  While the slate includes David Fincher, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda), possibly the most exciting name yet has been released:  James Cameron.  /Film (via FilmSchoolRejects) have announced that the legendary director, whose first film in twelve years Avatar will be released this December to great hype, will sign on as executive-producer and director of a segment of the film.  Heavy Metal is an adaptation of the cult 1980’s adult-based comic series, a movie scheduled for release sometime within the next few years.

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