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.
I also received this set report awhile back from TFS reader Eli S. Check out a few small tidbits below:
– the scene at our school (the Phillips Academy in Andover) was replicated to look like Harvard, and a huge John Harvard replica statue was brought in that is still there.
– they filmed a winter scene so they needed to put the fake snow everywhere on the lawn outside of Commons (our dining hall)
– in part of David Fincher’s agreement was that he would do a Q&A session with the students before shooting. The Q&A was held in one of our smaller auditoriums and involved about 40 kids. David Fincher answered all of the questions very eloquently and was apt at INSERT IGNOREing humor frequently. The questions were from technical aspects of the cinematic medium, to more broad questions like “how much of the screenwriters vision do you use? as in, do you simply use it as a guideline or do you directly translate it?” which he answered with something along the lines of “I think of myself as the interpreter, I don’t intentionally deviate from the screenplay; I try first and foremost to please the person whose vision it originally was (Chuck Palahniuk for example with Fight Club)”- A few hours after the Q&A shooting began, (at about 7:00pm), the scene took about an hour to shoot. The scene, as I perceived it was either some form of hazing or initiation, as it involved a few actors who already had their pants down, followed by another actor being (forced to?) put his pants down, the actor then doubled over and threw up.
This was just a short report, but figured it would be appropriate to share in the post. The Social Network is set to be released late 2010.
What do you think about The Social Network?