David Fincher. Aaron Sorkin. Justin Timberlake?

It's official: Justin Timberlake has been cast in "The Facebook Movie."

Actually, the tentative title is The Social Network, but it will always, always be known as "The Facebook Movie." Timberlake will play Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, who was one of Facebook's early advisers and served as its first President.

He'll star alongside Jesse Eisenberg (Zombieland), who will play Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's dorky antisocial CEO, and Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), who will play Eduardo Saverin, another co-founder who had a falling out with Zuckerberg that apparently serves as the central drama of the film.

In other words, Timberlake is at best the third lead. One thing I'll say about Timberlake's film career is that he's never been afraid to be overshadowed. He's taken small supporting roles in pretty much all of his movies, good and bad -- Alpha Dog, The Love Guru, Shrek the Third, Black Snake Moan. Pretty much everything.

Movie Cultists has comparison photos of each actor with their real-life counterpart, and Sean Parker looks like just the kind of smarmy know-it-all that Timberlake could excel at.

The film will be directed by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's David Fincher, who I consider to be a huge "get" for Sony in what could've easily been a made-for-TV movie. Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson's War) apparently wrote a very smart script, so consider me excited.

Obviously, it won't come out until 2010, but we might be looking at an Oscar contender given the pedigree...or at least a high-quality guilty pleasure.

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