Friending Aaron Sorkin
In Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, the screenwriter behind The Social Network discovered a subject as compulsive and complicated as he is. Read __Lynn Hirschberg’s profile of the director__ here.
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Aaron Sorkin
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Justin Timberlake plays Sean Parker, cofounder of Napster and a Facebook executive. It was reportedly the most difficult role to cast; Timberlake auditioned multiple times before getting the part.
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Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, cofounder of Facebook. Garfield has been cast as Peter Parker in the 2012 version of Spider-Man.
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Rooney Mara plays Erica Albright, the “Helen of Troy of Facebook,” who rejected Mark Zuckerberg, causing him to create a Facebook precursor as a form of revenge. Mara has been cast as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Jesse Eisenberg plays Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Armie Hammer plays twins.
