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Baltimore film shoot for Facebook movie, 'The Social Network'
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Actor Jesse Eisenberg arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Zombieland"
in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Steinberg)
Production crews for the upcoming The Social Network biopic arrived in Baltimore on Sunday, November 1, 2009, and immediately began preparing for Monday and Tuesday evening filming. The shoot will primarily occur at John Hopkins Homewood campus – a stand-in for Harvard University in the movie – but Baltimore Film Office director Debbie Dorsey indicated some shooting will also take place on Charles Street.
Only minute changes were made to the Hopkins campus to make it appear to be Harvard, like including the Cambridge area code on ads pinned on bulletin boards and posting signs about showing Harvard ID at building entrances. Digital editing will eventually erase any landscape differences.
The Social Network stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, who created the structure for the website Facebook in 2004 while a Harvard sophomore. Director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Fight Club) is at the helm, working with a screenplay penned by West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin from research Ben Mezrich conducted for his controversial book, "The Accidental Billionaires." The film’s location manager, Bill Doyle, told The Baltimore Sun the screenplay is an original creation, and early credit lists do not mention Mezrich.
The production expects to employ about 75 Baltimore-area crew members during the four days it films there. Filming began in Boston in October and will soon move to Los Angeles, where Justin Timberlake will join the production. Timberlake is playing Facebook's founding president, Sean Parker, who didn’t enter the Facebook story until Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and moved to California’s Silicon Valley. The film is due to wrap in February 2010.
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