Film to show Facebook founder as ‘sex maniac’
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac, it has emerged.
Adapted from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, the £40 million black comedy is called The Social Network.
The film is a highly dramatised version told in flashbacks recalled in the drama of a court hearing. The film is set for release in October.
February 4, 2004, when Zuckerberg, then 19, is seen to be dumped in a Harvard bar by his girlfriend, Erica.
She tells him he will “go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a tech geek”. The reality, she says, is rather more upsetting: “I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an a******?”
Following the snub, Zuckerberg goes back to his college dormitory where, in a drunken fever, he writes the computer code turning Harvard’s annual collection of student photographs and biographies into a website where he and his male friends rank Harvard women as barnyard animals. Thirty minutes after “The Facebook” goes live, it is so popular that it crashes Harvard’s computer network, reports the Times.
The film shows how Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, also 26, drops out of college and moves to Silicon Valley in California where he builds Facebook with Sean Parker, co-founder of the music piracy site Napster, played in the film by Justin Timberlake, 29.
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