The Works and Genius of David Fincher: The Social Network

This is making waves: David Fincher is in talks to direct The Social Network, an adaptation of the book about the two friends who created facebook -- and now hate each other.

The premise sounds promising to me, although I have to say there is a grave danger to try and hype this story on the success of facebook, which I don't think the story has anything to do with that. In Fincher's hands this can be gold, because he understands a project from a story and character standpoint. And he can talk studio execs and others out of what he knows is not good for the story.

But to even the waves a little: David Fincher is "in talks" to direct about a handful of projects, so I am not going to get very crazy about news like this until Fincher starts shooting something...

Here's a load of links, thanks for everyone finding and contributing these:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/23/...
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/23/...the-accidental-billionaires/
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/06/david-fincher-facebook.html
http://chud.com/...

16 comments:

AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 2:48 AM
Next up:
TWITTER - THE MOVIE
directed by Steven Soderbergh
edJune 25, 2009 at 3:41 AM
The Ebay Trilogy, Peter Jackson
AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 4:09 AM
The Trilogy:
Facebook by David Fincher
Twitter by James Cameron
MySpace by Christopher Nolan

I just kidding. I believe in Fincher.
AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 4:31 AM
I can already hear the smoky trailer voice:

"In a land... where Google rules... emerges a hero... who must save humankind from censorship... by twittering about his every move... (big explosion) featuring Rob Schneider! as the Twitterer!"
AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 12:45 PM
WTF?! Social Networks seem diametral to a good story...
AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Apparently Michael Bay already made a Twitter movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqtsIWLS2hE&feature=topvideos
AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 1:39 AM
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AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 5:14 AM
I can't wait for when all the hype around Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and all that Web 2.0 bullshit calms down. I hate all that internetty stuff and don't want to hear opinions from every idiot on the planet + what he's doing every minute... I just don't care. In that sense I'm more traditional, I guess, although I'm "just" 23 years old. Self-censorship should be reintroduced to people.
AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 5:17 AM
Facebook has kind of a widened definition of "friends". And I don't really like stripping down in public, in front of a 6 billion audience.
jonJune 27, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Let's start a petition to stop this travesty from happening!
FincherFanaticJune 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Hm, I think it can be a great movie in Fincher's hands. Give it a little FIGHT CLUB, and maybe some AMERICAN PSYCHO. I can see this turn out to be a great film. I trust the man.
AnonymousJune 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
"Let's start a petition to stop this travesty from happening!"

I wish people would read the links provided. It would be a movie about the HUMAN BEINGS involved in making facebook, it wouldn't be a movie about facebook.

Human beings= drama

And drama is what we want, so can people stop the knee jerk bullshit at least on this site.

If you want to be a dick go to IMDB or AICN
AnonymousJune 27, 2009 at 12:35 PM
"It would be a movie about the HUMAN BEINGS involved in making facebook"

I would hardly call Mark Zuckerberg a human being. He's a whore for money and a backstabbing nerd. He's more like Gollum than a human being.
FincherFanaticJune 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM
"He's a whore for money and a backstabbing nerd."
That should make for a decent movie!
AnonymousJune 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Yes Anonymous at 12:35. Are you proving my point or are you proving my point?

Yes a movie about the backstabbing money loving whores behind facebook sounds like a fucking great movie to me.
AnonymousJune 27, 2009 at 5:08 PM
LOL!