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Apparently, the fans clamoring for Joseph Quinn to play Mark Zuckerberg in a biopic have already forgotten that Zuckerberg already has a biopic. It’s called “The Social Network,” and it was released in 2010 with two masters of their crafts behind the project — David Fincher served as the movie’s director, and Aaron Sorkin handled the screenplay. So who played Zuckerberg? That would be Jesse Eisenberg, who earned an Oscar nomination for the role (but ultimately lost out to Colin Firth in “The King’s Speech,” which also beat “The Social Network” for best picture at the 2011 ceremony).
Fincher and Sorkin’s film places Eisenberg’s Zuckerberg between two timelines — one where he’s creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room and skyrocketing to success at a young age, and one where he’s being sued by multiple parties, including his former best friend and Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and his Harvard nemeses Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (both played by Armie Hammer). The film is pitch-perfect from open to close — thanks in large part to the score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, which marked the duo’s first collaboration with Fincher and earned them an Academy Award — and thanks to its existence, we really, really don’t need any more Mark Zuckerberg biopics … no matter how much Quinn looked like him on the Oscars red carpet this year.
