Cera Or Shia As FACEBOOK Founder?

Recently there was a weird but true announcement that Fight Club director David Fincher might take on the biopic project about the birth and rise of FACEBOOK, titled THE SOCIAL NETWORK with the script by Aaron Sorkin who was so euphoric about it last year.
Rama’s SCREEN reader moviebuff123 and I agreed that it sounds more like a TV movie than something we need to watch 2 hours on the big screen in Fincher-style.

But now, cnet reported that casting process is already underway, though nobody has been confirmed or officially chosen yet but some names surfaced as potential candidates to play the now billionaire founder of FACEBOOK, Mark Zuckerberg.
Michael Cera got hit by an awful flop called Year One but might recover this year with Youth In Revolt and Paper Heart.
Shia Labeouf is enjoying fame and fortune of Transformers 2 despite poor reviews.
Two of today’s in-demand actors. One is comedy, the other is action. The producers are considering them right now but who do you think is best to play Zuckerberg in this movie? Who’s more nerdy than the other?

slashfilm said that the movie might actually be based on the upcoming book THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES by author Ben Mezrick who wrote Bringing Down The House which got adapted into a movie titled 21 starring Kevin Spacey who happens to be one of the producers of THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
FACEBOOK isn’t too happy about this and warns its employees not to comment on this book which apparently doesn’t shine a good light on them.

Here’s the official synopsis of the book, which will hit the shelves on July 14th, 2009…
“Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance–and sexual success–was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus–and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
What followed–a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowers–makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lost–and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.”