Yesterday, Trent Reznor tweeted, “New site for the film I scored,” with a link to the website for David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” and as we hoped, the music is there and it’s wonderfully ominous with an incredibly slow and haunting build. While there’s not a lot of music on show (just one piece it seems), this minimal, menacing number swells from a droning cello growl and then balefully (and eventually) expands with sinister bass tenors, a ghostly shimmering keyboard note and an almost angelic grate. There’s some interesting almost-music concrete-like rasps to this part of Reznor’s score and it’s extremely exciting and only builds our anticipation all the more.
Meanwhile, the excellent ‘Social Network’ website has basically released every production still from the movie which includes almost 50 photos and we’ve included our favorites here (there’s also a Tumblr for news updates). All the photos, seem to evince a nice moody pallor by cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth (the cinematographer of “Fight Club” and “One Hour Photo”).
Here’s the official synopsis:
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
The picture stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara, Max Minghella, Armie Hammer, and Brenda Song. Many readers scoff at the film being the “Facebook movie,” but something tells us this movie is going to a) be a big Oscar contender and b) make them eat their words. The film makes its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on September 24 and then makes its North American theatrical debut on October 1. Update: here’s that piece of Reznor score. Evidently NIN collaborator Atticus Ross helped out too. He did the apocalyptic, scorched-earth score to the “The Book of Eli” which was probably the best element of that mediocre movie.
