After a few teaser trailers, which may or may not have been real, Yahoo! Movies has the premiere of the full-length trailer for David Fincher’s The Social Network, and, well, you should just watch it.
The Social Network tells the story of the founding of Facebook and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake with David Fincher directing an Aaron Sorkin script based on the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.
This movie has been talked up for a while, but I’ve never been to enthusiastic for it. I mean, I’m sure its an interesting story and all, but isn’t the studio just taking advantage of the most popular website on the internet? Well, this trailer killed all my doubts. It starts off with some images of Facebook set to a chilling choral version of Radiohead’s “Creep” but really picks up with some footage from the film. The standout here is definitely Jesse Eisenberg. His performance as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg looks excellent. Overall, actually, this looks like an intense drama that is already generating Oscar buzz. Still, I am going to wait to see the film for myself before I pass judgement.
What this trailer shows us is that The Social Network has serious potential to be a powerful drama that not only has relevance to Facebook’s current popularity but also will hopefully be a fantastic, well-directed, well-acted film in-and-of-itself.
