I am so in love with this story and the film and the people behind the real and retold versions. I saw two early screenings and went back to the theaters this weekend.

I want to say this movie is the best story I’ve ever heard in my life but I know I will get a lot of slack for saying it – but it’s most certainly one of them!

The Social Network made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival this week on September 24th and had an special screening with our friends over at the Cinema Society in NY a few days later.

Pretty impressive guest lists at both: Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, with whom The Daily Truffle shares several mutual acquaintances, Cameron’s right-hand woman on his new project Guest of a Guest, Rachelle Hruska, and Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg. Also there - Matthew Modine, Nacho Figueras (my love) and his wife Delfina Blaquier, Olivia Palermo, Oliver Platt, Dabney Mercer, Wendy Murdoch, Adrien Brody, Calvin Klein, Bridget Moynahan, Donna Kara, Helena Christensen, Linda Vojtova, Frederique van der Wahl, Matt Bomer, Chris Riggi, Paulina Porizkova, Gabourey Sidibe, Byrdie Bell, Tinsley Mortimer, Baz Luhrmann. Pics from Cinema Society.

PICS – World Premiere of Columbia Pictures’ The Social Network at the Opening Night of The Film Society of Lincoln Center New York Film Festival 2010 at Alice Tully Hall – Lincoln Center. © 2010 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Aaron Sorkin, Kevin Spacey, Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, Armie Hammer, Beth Ditto (big surprise of the evening!)

Columbia sent over a synopsis: On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ceán Chaffin and based on the book “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich.

Jessie Eisenerberg and Justin Timberlake star in in The Social Network (due out from Columbia Pictures October 1, 2010) which chronicles the many different claims to Facebook. “The Facebook movie” (as it’s being loosely called) is produced and adapted by West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin from Ben Mezrich‘s book The Accidental Billionaires who also wrote Bringing down the House (about the famous Vegas/MIT card-counting ring which came to the big screen as 21 and starred Kevin Spacey, who is also executive producing the Facebook movie).

David Fincher directed this little gem, who also directed Alien 3, Se7en (Brad Pitt) and Fight Club (yes, also Brad Pitt).

The heavyweight ensemble will keep this flick in the top tiers whereas other equally time-appropriate corporate scandal films of their era like Pirates of Silicon Valley and Barbarians at the Gates fell short for lack of Hollywood heavy-weight involvement, and put them straight to video.

Also producing the upcoming Facebook movie are Mike De Luca, Scott Rudin and Aaron Sorkin whose screenplay, we hear will include more content from other interviews conducted with people not included in Mezrich’s book.

Andrew Garfield who was just announced (7/02/10) to take over as Peter Parker for Tobey Maguire in the upcoming Spiderman film, due out in 2012,
will play Eduardo Saverin (another co-founder of Facebook with settled claim to the throne).  Andrew also happens to have been born in LA, which makes him an LA native !

As of the original post date of the article (4/30/10) Deadline Hollywood, Variety and Sony Pictures itself have not put out anything on the scandal of the decade but I am watching with baited breath.

This movie has all the right components:

1. AFFLUENCE: The affluent Winklevoss twins from Harvard who’s father helped them fight for their financial stake to the Facebook empire, yielding them a $65 Million settlement
2. OLD WISE GURU & YOUNG NEW PADOWAN: Sean Parker, the God-father of music hacking who co-founded Napster and was brought to justice in the 90s, returns as the wise mentor to young Mark Zuckerberg, who taught him how to unravel his start-up from classmate claims by making it bigger better and incorporating. *Sean, who the world should know, is the most interesting person to watch in this movie for sure, why else would JT pick the part to play? After Napster, Sean Parker also co-founded contact sharing software company Plaxo, and then helped Zuckerberg to do new rounds of financing and used his expertise and savvy to propel the site from a cool new video game into Facebook, Inc., of which his fee included becoming “Founding President”. Sean Parker is now at the Founders Fund, a venture capital fund that specializes in social networking start-ups.
3. CHANGING OF THE GUARD: Mark Zuckerberg is to Bill Gates as your PC is to Facebook mobile.
4. POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Consumer vs. big business changes dramatically when people stare at a screen for 70% of their day -information is faster and communication is quicker. Meaning people are now aware more than ever of better deals, pricing and offers that before when we were a captive audience to whichever store we were in or whatever newspaper we were reading or whatever channel we were watching. The interest makes it easier to police pricing and Facebook is a major reason to be – and stay – online.
5. RIDICULOUSLY GOOD-LOOKING CAST: Justin Timberlake plays Facebook Inc. & Napster founder Sean Parker, Armie Hammer (Poppy Lifton’s accomplice who duped Serena last season on Gossip Girl) & Josh Pence (V magazine model, and an *LA native ~ SAMO High ’00) play real life twins Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss *(world class rowing champions for Harvard U, Oxford and the US Olympic team who invented an early concept for what later became Facebook, called ConnectU), Jessie Eisenberg who plays Mark Zuckerberg, and new-comer  Andrew Garfield is super hot and plays Eduardo Saverin (a third Facebook co-founder claimer with a settled lawsuit with Mark).

Here are 10 more reasons to get excited about this film out October 15th, 2010:

1. Pirates of Silicon Valley, part 2 with Mark Zuckerberg as the Bill Gates 2.0
2. Barbarians at the Login page – Five claims to the social networking giant
3. Tale of a bunch of cute Harvard boys who all stumbled onto the next new thing at the same time
4. The Winklevoss twins competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the US Rowing Team – not in the movie but very impressive – they’re Olympics heros and you should support them
5. A deeper look at Mark Zuckerberg’s inner circle who turned Facebook from the “new Friendster” into an advertising, marketing, emailing, IM-ing, photo-sharing machine
6. V magazine model Josh Pence plays stand in for Cameron and Tyler
7. Gossip Girl cutie Armie Hammer plays Cameron and Tyler
8. Prince Albert of Monaco – aka Charlotte Casiraghi’s uncle – is portrayed in a boat race scene
9. LA native Rashida Jones (Buckley, daughter of Quincy) plays Mark’s voice of reason attorney
10. Kevin Spacey X Justin Timberlake X Aaron Sorkin X David Fincher = AMAZING

CAST & CREDITS:

Title: “The Social Network” but being referred to as “The Facebook Movie”
Plot: Zuckerberg vs the Winklevoss Twins vs another co-founder from Harvard named Eduardo vs the brains from Napster Sean Parker that pulled Facebook, and Mark, out of the sandbox and into Palo Alto
Director: David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Alien)
Producer: Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin, Aaron Sorkin
Script: Aaron Sorkin (West Wing)
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Jesse Eisenberg … Mark Zuckerberg (co-founder of Facebook, former employee at ConnectU)
Justin Timberlake … Sean Parker (former Napster co-founder, and current Facebook, Inc. Founder)
Armie Hammer … Cameron Winklevoss (co-founder of ConnectU – an early version of Facebook for the Ivy League)
Josh Pence … Tyler Winklevoss (co-founder of ConnectU – an early version of Facebook for the Ivy League)
John Hayden … Mr. Winklevoss, their dad and backer of his son’s brainstorm for the first Facebook at Harvard, called ConnectU, which Mark Zuckerberg was hired to code
James Shanklin … Prince Albert (of Monaco who is in some of the Winklevoss boat race scenes)
Andrew Garfield … Eduardo Saverin (another co-founder of Facebook with settled claim to the throne)
Joseph Mazzello … Dustin Moskovitz
Rashida Jones (LA NATIVE) … plays the girlfriend of Mark or Edward, not sure which
Malese Jow (Vampire Diaries) … Alice, another girlfriend, not sure who’s will update one day, soon

POWER FLOW IN CONSUMER AMERICA:

• In the 70s we had the Pirates of Silicon Valley with the infamous early computer adopters Bill Gates and Steve Jobs who changed the world by taking computers out of obscurity and putting them into every home in America.
• In the 80s we met The Barbarians at the Gates - the new Wall Street became all about M&A and the infamous KKR boys Henry Kravis, George Roberts, and Jerome Kohlberg defined a new capitalism that turned America into a monopoly-driven kingdom for 2 decades.
• In the 90s we had the tech crunch and internet start-ups. A new set up Kings took the helm and American business moved online with AOL, Amazon and Napster. Everything became either cheap, easy or free and the previous structures became to change.
• In the 2000s, online social networks were born and American society & culture moved online. Social lives, scrapbooks, dating, and email were trumped by Friendster, MySpace and Facebook, changing the consumer process forever and giving individuals a own voice in their own communities.

Buy the book on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Facebook-Betrayal/dp/0385529376

IMAGES FROM THE FILM:

PS – Andrew Garfield was just announced (7/02/10) to take over as Peter Parker for Tobey Maguire, in the upcoming Spiderman film, due out in 2012.  Andrew also happens to have been born in LA, which makes him an LA native!