What is Mark Zuckerberg’s Reaction to The Social Network Film?

After seeing the trailer for The Social Network, a film about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, my first reaction was “What does Mark Zuckerberg think about Hollywood making a film about his story”? It seems that Zuckerberg has opened up about this in several interviews and he’s not thrilled.

We would have cooperated with them if they could have made a movie that was the real story -Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook No Likey The Social Network

Hollywood and Facebook are not the best pals right now. All due to David Fincher’s much-anticipated film and a story that, according to Facebook, is not entirely true and filled with mislead facts and skewed truths.

Facebook Executives Get an Early Peek into the Film

Tensions between Hollywood and Facebook started when several Facebook executives got exclusive access to the script. Of course, they had their concerns and went to the film’s producer with several script change requests. In fact, Rudin went on to reveal that the executives that actually got to see the film (Elliot Schrage, VP of Communications and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO) “saw the movie a while ago, and they do not like it.”

The Film Isn’t Entirely Factual

Of course! It’s Hollywood and they needed to spin the story a bit to sell tickets. The Social Network Film Producer Scott Rudin told the NY Times that he had made a few changes to the actual story. The 26-year-old Zuckerberg claims filmmarkers of bending truths and falsifying facts to create a more sellable story in Hollywood.

“I started Facebook to improve the world, and make it a more transparent place,” he said then. “This movie portrays me as someone who built Facebook so I could meet girls.”

Other Facebook Insiders Agree with Mark

Chris Huges, a Facebook co-founder who left in 07 backs Zuckerberg’s claim that the film portrays him as creating facebook “to meet girls”:

“It’s crazy because all of a sudden Mark becomes this person who created Facebook to get girls or to gain power. That’s not what was going on. It was a little more boring and quotidian than that.”

Facebook Learns to Accept

Obviously the current version of the film will be released in theaters in October. Facebook had to find a suitable comment on the film to release to the public and here it is:

“[The Social Network is] a sign of Facebook’s impact that we’re the subject of a movie — even one that’s fiction.”

Haven’t Seen the Trailor?

Check out The Social Network Trailer video in HD below:

Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg Meet for the First Time

Did you see the SNL episode recently where the real Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg meet on stage? Check out this video:

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