Social Network Movie David Fincher Director

Director David Fincher and screen writer Aaron Sorkin were on the talk show Charlie Rose the other night promoting their new film The Social Network Movie.

During their uninterrupted 25 minute interview Fincher and Sorkin reveal how the project came about and how they navigated the waters of poetic license and not having access to the central character Mark Zuckerberg while making the film. You can see the interview in it’s entirety below:

Here is part 2 of the interview:

On September 30th at the Soho Apple Store, The Social Network director David Fincher and star Jesse Eisenberg sat for a Q&A. Given that there’s already been significant flap over the film’s accuracy, especially with respect to its portrayal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it came as no surprise that someone asked the pair about possible misrepresentation. Just how fast and loose are they playing with the lives of Zuckerberg et al? Fincher spoke for both of them, saying, “I don’t think it would be responsible for either of us to enter into an endeavor that was simply a million dollar hatchet job.”

Fincher went to admit that lots of conversations were naturally “distilled, crystallized and crushed” for the sake of narrative economy, and that everyone involved knew full well that “specifics of what they were talking about were debatable.” Nevertheless, their aim was true. “I think we got to a kind of truth about a place, a time, and a group of people—specifically the people whose names we used. I hope it’s fair. The intention was to be fair.”