Timberlake, Eisenberg, Garfield added to ‘Network’
Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set the core cast for “The Social
Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation of Facebook.
Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake will play
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president; and
Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with
Zuckerberg over money.
Production will begin next month in Boston and then move to Los Angeles.
Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti and Cean Chaffin will produce. Kevin
Spacey is exec producer.
Script focuses on the evolution of Facebook, the online social network created in 2004
on the Harvard campus, and how overnight success and wealth changed the lives of the
classmates who created it. Eisenberg, who went from “The Squid and the Whale” to
“Adventureland,” locked the central role as Zuckerberg as Columbia prepares to release
his latest film, “Zombieland,” on Oct. 2.
Timberlake was most recently seen in “The Open Road,” Garfield in the Terry Gilliam-
directed “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.”
Eisenberg’s repped by ICM, Timberlake by WME and managers Rick Yorn and Jennifer
Davisson-Killoran, and Garfield by CAA.
Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set the core cast for “The Social
Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation of Facebook.
Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake will play
Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president; and
Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with
Zuckerberg over money.
Production will begin next month in Boston and then move to Los Angeles.
Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti and Cean Chaffin will produce. Kevin
Spacey is exec producer.
Script focuses on the evolution of Facebook, the online social network created in 2004
on the Harvard campus, and how overnight success and wealth changed the lives of the
classmates who created it. Eisenberg, who went from “The Squid and the Whale” to
“Adventureland,” locked the central role as Zuckerberg as Columbia prepares to release
his latest film, “Zombieland,” on Oct. 2.
Timberlake was most recently seen in “The Open Road,” Garfield in the Terry Gilliam-
directed “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.”
Eisenberg’s repped by ICM, Timberlake by WME and managers Rick Yorn and Jennifer
Davisson-Killoran, and Garfield by CAA.
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Columbia casts trio in Facebook film
by Roland Hansen
by Roland Hansen
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