From Zodiac to Zuckerberg: Fincher does Facebook?

I’m not sure what is cooler. Being able to say you built a billion dollar company from your bedroom or being able to say that David Fincher directed a biopic on your life. Mark Zuckerberg might one day be able to say just that after The Hollywood Reporter reports on some wacky news that Fincher is in early talks to direct the infamous Facebook biopic for Columbia Pictures?

After gaining instant cred by having Aaron Sorkin on board to write the screenplay, it appears that Fincher is not busy enough on The Killer, The Goon, Black Hole, and Heavy Metal? The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook from its 2004 creation on the Harvard campus by sophomore Mark Zuckerberg to a juggernaut with more than 60 million members. The company was reportedly valued at $16 billion last year when Microsoft outbid Google to invest $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the company. Along with the events that created the phenomenon, the film will cover how these unimaginable overnight riches changed the lives of Zuckerberg and his Facebook cohorts.

Let’s entertain the idea for a second. How would Fincher visually adapt the project? How would the director of Se7en and a slew of other thrillers manage to take it down a notch? It may be the most challenging project for the helmer to take on a biopic and make plot point elements such as spending sprees, long hours at the office and saying F-U to Google and make something raw out of it.