Nor write on his wall, appear in his news feed or ‘like’ his photos. READ MORE: David Fincher Answers Empire Reader Questions All that, and it still thrills thanks to Fincher’s crisp filmmaker, Aaron Sorkin’s whip-smart dialogue, and incredible performances from Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and a scene-stealing Rooney Mara.Īs the film turns 10 (don’t forget to send it a birthday message on Facebook!), take a look back at Empire’s original The Social Network feature – going on set for some of its most notable sequences, and speaking to Fincher, Eisenberg, and Garfield during its creation. Over the decade since its arrival – which has brought us Cambridge Analytica, ‘Catfishing’, election scandals, and an entire generation raised on social media – the somewhat-fictionalised Facebook origin story has continued to grow in stature, cementing itself as a landmark 21st Century movie, gaining greater thematic and cultural resonance. On release, David Fincher’s The Social Network proved to be an electrifying dramatisation of very recent history – a film that captured a moment in the immediate aftermath of its occurrence, while making clear parallels to the very earliest storytelling traditions in classical tragedies.

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