Sony Likes "The Social Network"

Relativity Media's "The Social Network", the $50 million Columbia feature, directed by David Fincher ("Fight Club"), from a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing"), loosely adapts the novel "The Accidental Billionaires (A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal") by author Ben Mezrich.

Cast is led by Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield (Sony's new 'Spider-Man"), Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara and Armie Hammer, following 'Mark Zuckerberg' (Eisenberg) and his development of the 'social' website 'Facebook'.

Scheduled for release October 1, 2010, the feature is set in a courtroom, told in flashbacks, featuring numerous sequences of talking heads, interspersed with beer drinking, sex with fantasy co-eds and music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

In a pivotal sequence, a speed-talking, beer-drinking 'Zuckerberg', then 19, is jilted in a Harvard university bar by his girlfriend, 'Erica'.

Erica tells Zuckerberg he will "go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a tech geek. But I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole."

A driven Zuckerberg then retreats to his college dorm where, in a vengeful funk, blogs humiliating details about Erica, then writes up a computer code turning college collections of female student photographs into a website where he and his male friends can rank 'chicks'.

Produced by actor Kevin Spacey, without approval or support from Zuckerberg, "The Social Network" continues to follow the character as he moves to California's Silicon Valley, where he builds up Facebook with hustler 'Sean Parker' (Timberlake), co-founder of music piracy site Napster.

"A lot of it is fiction, but even the film-makers will say that," said Zuckerberg about Fincher's movie.

'They're building a good story. This is my life..."

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