A couple of weeks ago we got our first look at the first movie trailer released for the upcoming David Fincher film The Social Network (commonly referred to as the Facebook Movie) and today we get to see trailer #2. While the first trailer was an ominously vague tease of the film (with music by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who recently announced that he wrote the score for the film), this second trailer puts the storyline into a bit more context … kinda:

This new trailer uses the same audio dialog we heard in the first trailer but adds a back and forth “chat” by way of Facebook status updates. It’s a clever way to make the trailer for The Social Network look more Facebooky. After the jump, check out the trailer in full …

As you may recall a couple of weeks ago we got to see the first teaser poster for the new David Fincher film, The Social Network, which will tell the dark tale of the creation of Facebook and then a week later we got to see the first teaser trailer. Today we learn, from Trent Reznor himself, that TR has been working on the score to the film, which will be released this Fall ahead of the movie. In a post published to NIN.com yesterday, TR announced that despite his plans to “take some time off” after the end of Nine Inch Nails, he was approached by Fincher to score the film … and he said yes. Here is the full text of TR‘s amazing announcement:

I was planning on taking some time off after the continual waves of touring that ended last fall and spend this year experimenting around with what would become How To Destroy Angels and some new NIN. Well, that plan didn’t work out so well. David Fincher started inquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming film, The Social Network. Yeah, the movie about the founding of Facebook. I’ve always loved David’s work but quite honestly I wondered what would draw him to tell that story. When I actually read the script and realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned. Atticus Ross and I have been on a creative roll so I asked him if he wanted to work on this with me and we signed on. Months later, I’m happy to tell you we’re nearing the completion of this and I couldn’t be happier with how it’s turned out. The level of excellence that David operates on is inspiring and the entire process has been challenging and truly enjoyable. As Atticus and I near the end of the scoring process, we’re looking forward to the next phase – distilling the large amount of music we’ve written for this down to a satisfying record (or two). The film opens Oct 1 in the US with the record likely available a couple of weeks ahead of that. Speaking of the film… it’s really fucking good. And dark!

NIN fans may recall that Reznor and Fincher previously worked together on the soundtrack for the 1995 movie Se7en (staring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow) and Reznor has previously scored the films Natural Born Killers (1994, directed by Oliver Stone) and Lost Highway (1997, directed by David Lynch) … so we know A.) TR knows how to score films and B.) he only works with the best directors around. This is really fantastic news. First we get a small batch of music from TR‘s new band How to Destroy Angels and now we get to look forward to a new album of new solo material. AND don’t forget, TR also promised that “NIN isn’t dead” and that he is working on “material that will be quite different from previous NIN“ … this suggests another Nine Inch Nails album. But … the focus of this post is on the upcoming score for The Social Network. After the jump, check out the teaser trailer again and pay attention to the background music, in hindsight I suppose we should’ve recognized how Trent Reznor it sounds …

A week ago today we got our first look at the first teaser poster for the new film The Social Network (aka the Facebook movie) and today we get to check out the film’s first teaser video trailer:

While this first teaser doesn’t really show much it deffo enlightens as to what the tone of the film will be. To be honest, I’m not all that familiar with the infighting that went on in the creation of Facebook but from what I can hear in this clip, it is intriguing. I don’t know that this is a film that I need to rush out and see when it is released later this year but my interest has been piqued a bit. What do y’all think … does The Social Network sound like a film that you are anxious to see?

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Last November we saw photos from the set of the so-called Facebook movie titled The Social Network and today we get our first look at the first promo poster released from the film. As you may (or may not) know, The Social Network stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones (among others) and tells the tale of the creation of the online behemoth known as Facebook and chronicles the highs and lows of getting the small social networking site online … and its subsequent growth into the Internet giant it has become. And so … here is the poster:

Columbia Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with the poster for director David Fincher’s The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Joe Mazzello and Rashida Jones. A teaser site for the film has also launched HERE. Written and produced by Aaron Sorkin, the October 1st release is about the creation of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg created the site in 2004 at Harvard during his sophomore year. It now has over 400 million members worldwide. Eisenberg is playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Timberlake plays Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook’s founding president; and Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money.

Considering that Facebook has grown so large that is is actually challenging Google for Internet supremacy, I can understand how a movie about the site’s creation might be interesting to some people. You may not believe this but I’m not a huge Facebook user (Twitter is more my style) so I don’t quite get all the hoopla over the site but I might be down with checking out this movie. It’s kinda crazy that we live in an age where movies are now being made about websites … it’s so weird. That being said, when are they going to start production of the Twitter movie? Now that’s something I’d totes be down with seeing. Any Facebook fans out there itching to see The Social Network? Is this your kind of thing?

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Johns Hopkins University will fill in as Harvard University in the new Facebook movie titled The Social Network which has already started production. The film will tell the tale of how a Harvard student came up with a way for other students to interact with one another … a social network, if you will … and will star Jesse Eisenberg (the poor man’s Michael Cera) as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It turns out that folks at Johns Hopkins aren’t too happy that their school is being portrayed as Harvard but hey, that’s showbiz. Here are a few pics from the set this week:

The Johns Hopkins University passed itself off as Harvard in a movie Monday without feeling the least bit flattered. “It feels degrading somehow,” said Diego Ardila, 19, as he watched workers remove the words “Latrobe Hall” from a stately brick building and replace them with “Kirkland House.” Hopkins’ Homewood campus is standing in for Harvard in “The Social Network,” a movie about the creation of Facebook by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The movie, like some Hopkins students, couldn’t get into Harvard, which has a longstanding policy against commercial filming on campus. So the production has opened some old college-admissions wounds. “The general consensus is, a lot of kids are not pleased,” said Lorre Atlan, 20, a junior majoring in biomedical engineering. “It’s obvious they [the filmmakers] could get Hopkins and not get Harvard.” That’s left Hopkins, one of the nation’s most selective colleges, feeling like a safety school. “It’s kind of like a blow to our pride,” said Ray Tsai, a 19-year-old sophomore studying biomedical engineering, an academic subject in which, he and others noted, Hopkins is rated more highly than Harvard. The sea of Hopkins hoodies and T-shirts on the campus’ quads Monday only looked like genuine school spirit. It was attempted sabotage. An anti-Harvard Facebook page urged students to “poke” into the movie by walking by the set in Hopkins wear. “Hopefully one slips in,” said Jack Chan, 19, a sophomore who pulled on a black Hopkins sweat shirt as he watched filming begin outside Shaffer Hall Monday afternoon. Not everyone thinks playing Harvard, which was tied for first with Princeton in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent college rankings, is beneath Hopkins, which came in a none-too-shabby 14th. “I think the people who have a problem with it are the same people who have latent self-loathing from the college admissions process,” said Sam Biddle, 22, a senior philosophy major. Jan Lee, 21, a junior in biomedical engineering, conceded, “A lot of people came here because they didn’t get into Harvard, Yale or Stanford.” Hopkins spokesman Dennis O’Shea put it in terms that might appeal to the competitive student body: “I prefer to think that we play Harvard better than Harvard can play Harvard.”

Yeah, I dunno know I feel about this idea of a Facebook movie. I understand they are trying to do something with Twitter as well … and I can only dread what they would turn out if they did a project on My Space. While I’m sure it’s somewhat interesting to see how the whole Facebook phenomenon got started, I can’t say that I’m all that impressed with the notion of a movie. It seems like just a way to capitalize on these new online ventures in order to make a quick buck. The fact that it is being directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) does speak to its merit but … I dunno. Are any of y’all interested in watching a movie about Facebook? I’m not sure that I am … I can barely be bothered to poke my friends on the social networking site itself. By the way … are we Facebook friends yet?

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