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The Social Network (2010)

Name: The Social Network
Director: David Fincher
Genre: drama film, biographical film, trial film
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 7.8

The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as…

Directed by David Fincher · Shot by Jeff Cronenweth · Cut by Kirk Baxter · Music by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross · Ratio 2.39:1 · 121 min

How it was made

The film's opening scene, in which Zuckerberg is with his girlfriend, took 99 takes to complete.
Armie Hammer played both Winklevoss twins with the help of body double Josh Pence; Hammer's face was digitally grafted onto Pence's during post-production for scenes requiring both characters on screen together.
Fincher sent Hammer and Pence to what the actors called twin boot camp for ten months to study the Winklevoss brothers.
The Henley Royal Regatta rowing scene was filmed on location in England using a miniature faking process, rather than in Los Angeles as originally planned.
The film was shot on the Red One digital cinema camera, and rowing extras were drawn from actual Harvard, Northeastern, Boston University and club rowers, none of whom ultimately appear in the final Henley race footage.

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: The Social Network (Fincher, 2010) with Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield — Serious Feather · 37 min
Dakota Johnson Rewatches The Social Network, Suspiria, The Peanut Butter Falcon & More | Vanity Fair — Vanity Fair · 14 min
The Social Network: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and David Fincher on the Score — Jack Cole · 19 min
How I Wrote The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin's Writing Process) — Behind the Curtain · 11 min
The Social Network Analysis — How David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin Craft a Perfect Fall Arc — StudioBinder · 18 min
The Social Network — Sorkin, Structure, and Collaboration — Lessons from the Screenplay · 13 min
Can We Still Enjoy The Social Network? — Broey Deschanel · 27 min
How Aaron Sorkin Creates Musical Dialogue In ‘The Social Network’ | 10 Minutes Of Perfection — Insider · 7 min

Elsewhere

More by David Fincher

The End of the Innocence — 1989
Vogue — 1990
Alien 3 — 1992
Seven — 1995
6th Avenue Heartache — 1996
The Game — 1997
Fight Club — 1999
Panic Room — 2002
Zodiac — 2007
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — 2008
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — 2011
Gone Girl — 2014
Mank — 2020
The Killer — 2023
The Adventures of Cliff Booth — 2026

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