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How To Be A Part Of Facebook's Biopic In Baltimore

October 29, 2009 at 1:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

Good morning, Baltimore! Here's something you'll want to update your status about, post on people's walls and create albums for -- the Facebook movie's coming to town! And whoever manages to appear in it will win a special prize from Mark Zuckerberg of potentially knowing that you exist.

"The Social Network" is already the most anticipated movie of 2010 for film geeks as well as people who spend too much time on their computers, thanks to the participation of "The West Wing"'s Aaron Sorkin, who signed on to write the script, and "Zodiac" and "Fight Club" director David Fincher. (I am Jack's nerdy roommate having a walk-and-talk with investors?)

Zuckerberg famously dropped out of Harvard to bring his baby to life, but shooting in Cambridge can get expensive -- that's if you even get the thumbs-up from the top brass, so it's off to Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University. Students on campus found out this week that the crew will arrive on Sunday and be shooting Monday and Tuesday.

Why Hopkins? Besides the loving embrace of the Baltimore Film Office which has welcomed crews for movies like "He's Just Not That Into You," "Live Free or Die Hard" and "Step Up 2: The Streets," it's possible Hopkins could look more Harvard-y than Harvard itself. We spoke to an alumna who knows her way around a film set, and she suggested the Homewood Campus, where "The Social Network" is shooting, is much more architecturally uniform than most of Harvard, giving viewers that Georgian red-brick backdrop they assume goes with the name.

Sadly, cast member Justin Timberlake won't be in town to film -- his character Sean Parker, cofounder of Napster (and first president of Facebook), is based in Silicon Valley, so it wouldn't make sense. But students and bystanders may see "Zombieland"'s Jesse Eisenberg, as Zuckerberg, or Armie Hammer ("Gossip Girl"'s treacherous Gabriel from last season) in a dual role as the Winklevoss twins, Zuck's original employers who later sued him.

Check around Wyman Quad Monday afternoon for a daytime scene -- and don't forget who to send your pictures to before putting them on Facebook!

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[Photo: Alan Cordova]

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