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Reznor working on Facebook movie soundtrack

By | Published on Tuesday 6 July 2010

Trent Reznor has revealed that he’s working on the soundtrack for an upcoming movie based on the life of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the website’s rise to internet prominence. Entitled ‘The Social Network’, the film is directed by David Fincher and, according to Reznor, is rather “dark”.

Writing on the official Nine Inch Nails website (though it’s not entirely clear if the soundtrack will be released under the NIN name), Reznor said: “David Fincher started enquiring about my interest in scoring his upcoming film, ‘The Social Network’. Yeah, the movie about the founding of Facebook. I’ve always loved David’s work but quite honestly I wondered what would draw him to tell that story. When I actually read the script and realised what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned. [Long-term collaborator] Atticus Ross and I have been on a creative roll so I asked him if he wanted to work on this with me and we signed on”.

He continued: “Months later, I’m happy to tell you we’re nearing the completion of this and I couldn’t be happier with how it’s turned out. … As Atticus and I near the end of the scoring process, we’re looking forward to the next phase – distilling the large amount of music we’ve written for this down to a satisfying record (or two)”.

The film is due to open in the US on 1 Oct, with Reznor and Ross’ soundtrack scheduled to be released as an album in mid-September.



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