Facebook Casting Rumors: Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake?

If it weren't for today being a slow news day and/or a travel day, I probably wouldn't care to write about this. They're just rumors and they don't mean much and I'm not even that happy with the choices. Our friend Carson Reeves of ScriptShadow wrote an update on his Facebook page mentioning that he's heard rumors about the cast for David Fincher's The Social Network, the movie about Facebook. He says that Jesse Eisenberg will play the lead character Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Napster's Sean Parker, and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo. How's that for some interesting casting choices?

If you're not sure who Mark Zuckerberg is, or why he's intereacting with Sean Parker, I suggest you go back and re-read the script review, where we talk about the story behind how Facebook started, which is the story we'll see in The Social Network. Eisenberg has been growing ...