According to what seems to be a legit rumor at Script Shadow, David Fincher has cast the main players of his surprise next feature, The Social Network – the drama about the founders of the Internet guggernaut Facebook. 

And actually as I write this, I’ve just stumbled across The Playlist who can confirm that all three of these guys have gone through a script reading with casting director Laray Mayfield and“however none are set in stone, and one — who we won’t mention by name — wasn’t exactly loved by the notoriously picky director”. No prizes for guessing who after you see the three names.

The supposed cast are…

Jesse Eisenberg, a kind of a surrogate Michael Cera who starred in Adventureland, and will play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Andrew Garfield who has done some terrific work in the U.K. on the Red Riding trilogy that screened earlier this year and is pretty darn amazing in Boy A, will play co-founder Eduardo Saverin. His role is pivotal to the whole movie as Saverin was the guy who was “betrayed” as the title of the book The Accidential Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook – A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Bertrayl upon which this film is based, suggests.

Surely the story won’t be as dramatic as that, and I know these guys created Facebook because they wanted to get laid at college (and it worked) but the genius and betrayl thing, is the story really that dramatic?

Justin Timberlake will play internet entrepreneur Sean Parker, the eccentric and 1000% confident in his own skin guy who created Napster and who was a big helping hand in the forming of Facebook. You can see why Timberlake would be cast in such a cocky role, and he might actually fit this. 

Columbia have given Fincher $47 million to make the movie with production beginning next month. It’s expected much of the shoot will be in Boston and Cambridge.