It is official Facebook the movie is in the making, the world finally gets to see the evolution and the successful of the multi-billion dollars social networking service company on the big screen, this reminds me of the similar TV Drama about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1999 “Pirates of Silicon Valley” .
Production will begin next month in boston and then move to several locations in L.A , the leading cast has been identified, while there are rumours that Shia LeBouf and Micheal Cera were in talks for the main role of playing the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, sadly to announced that they’re both not gonna be on board. Read more for details of the cast.
The new geeky kid Jesse Eisenberg from Adventureland will take the role of the Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg a Harvard student who co-founded Facebook with his classmates.
Justin Timberlake will embrace character of Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster who later become advisor of Facebook and their first president.
Newcomer Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, one of the early co-founder of Facebook who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.
The film titled “The Social Networking” will focus on the beginning of the giant social networking sites and how the success change the Harvard classmates life who invented it.
Can’t wait for the movie? you can start ahead by reading Ben Mezrich The Accidental Billionaires, till then we’ll have to wait untill 2010.