Justin Timberlake To Play Role In Upcoming Facebook Movie

Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set its core cast for “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation of Facebook. Just who is going to play the part of the founders? We find out today from Variety that Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker (Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president) and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin (Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg as the social network became a financial juggernaut).
Production will begin next month in Boston and then move to Los Angeles. Scott Rudin, Michael De Luca, Dana Brunetti and Cean Chaffin will produce. Kevin Spacey is executive producer.
The pic focuses on the evolution of Facebook and how overnight success and wealth changes the lives of the classmates who created it.