Sep 23 2009 We Now Know Who Will Pretend To Found Facebook
David Fincher has ADDED some more FRIENDS to the cast of his vaguely-titled Facebook film, The Social Network (Note the witty reference I just made to "adding friends." Like with Facebook.):
Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebookâs founding president, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg as the social network became a financial juggernaut.
Well, now that the cast is in place, it's up to Fincher to come up with a way to for my mom to come in at some point late in the film and quietly judge all the things I've said throughout, like how happened with actual Facebook.
Fincher Makes Facebook Connections [Variety]
Jun 24 2009 Facebook Movie Has Popular Director and Generic Title
As if news of Aaron Sorkin writing Facebook: The Movie wasn't perplexing enough, Variety has put up a story that adds two more peculiarities to the mix.
The entertainment magazine is reporting David Fincher, the man responsible for Se7en, Fight Club, and the recently-acclaimed-but-also-kind-of-boring The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, is in early talks to direct the film. And, in an even more baffling move, Columbia is apparently not putting "Facebook," a word that registers in obnoxious buzz-worthiness just under "Twitter," in the title. Rather, the studio is going with the intensely-generic The Social Network.
What? Why even pay for the rights to Facebook if you're not even going to use the word? Might as well buy the Twitter story and call the film "Service Your Friends Use to Tell You How 'Yummy' Their Stupid Vegan Sandwich Was."
And, more importantly, with The Social Network taken, what kind of equally-nondescript title is the straight-to-video knock-off going to use now? The Community Nexus? The Acquaintance Lattice? Friendship Dot Com? Someone really screwed the pooch on this one.
Jun 9 2009 David Fincher Demonstrates How iPhones Can Now Make YouTube Clips
The Steve Jobses over at Apple have just invented a new letter to add to the end of their iPhones, so, to advertise this innovation, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Fight Club director David Fincher made this Mission Impossible-esque commercial. It's totally fucked up because you think the iPhone 3G S is the same as the old iPhone but it turns out it's an entirely different phone and it fuckin' blew my mind and I had to watch it again and buy the poster for my dorm room:
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Nov 25 2008 'Benjamin Button' International Trailer
Paramount has released a new trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher's film about a man who was born in his eighties and ages backwards. It has a lot of new footage, but sadly doesn't touch on the part where Revlon scientists kidnap Benjamin Button and dissect him for his secrets. Give it a look:
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Nov 12 2008 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' TV Commercial, Dudes!
Here's a new TV spot for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The more I see of this tale of Brad Pitt reverse aging, the more I think reverse aging wouldn't be so bad. I like the idea of being popular in the nursing home--even if it's because everyone thinks I'm their grandson--and if we ever get jet packs, it would be a real shame if I was too feeble to wear them. On the downside, it might be sad to watch your friends and loved ones age around you, but think about this: what about your enemies? You get to watch them die too!
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Aug 18 2008 'Curious Case of Benjamin Button' TV Spot, Courtesy of Strange TV-Recording Person
A new preview of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ran during the Olympics last night. Fortunately for those who missed it, someone happened to be recording their television with a digital camera at the time (which people do, apparently), so here's it is. As a warning, the footage is pretty bad, and whoever recorded it is either on life support or stuck in an episode of 24 and about to go to commercial.
Jun 12 2008 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' Trailer
As much as it's hard to endorse a movie based on an idea from famed idiot Karl Pilkington--that humans should be born around age 80 and age backwards--The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is apparently also based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (famous author!), is directed by David Fincher (famous director!), stars Brad Pitt (famous husband!), and looks pretty epic from this new trailer, so I'm going to give it a tentative thumbs up. But to be honest, if someone is going to make any film idea from Karl Pilkington, it should be his Clive Warren/Rebecca De Mornay psychological thriller. There's far more potential there.
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