Henrick Vartanian
In a recent Vanity Fair profile, it is revealed that Napster co-creator Sean Parker and Justin Timberlake were not exactly on best of terms as JT prepared to portray him in the highly anticipated Facebook movie “The Social Network.”
At age 19, Parker helped create Napster. Then at 24, he was the founding president of Facebook. Now at 30, he is a hard-partying, press-ducking billionaire, considered the genius of social networking, and the “oracle” of the web. Parker is not happy with his treatment in the Aaron Sorkin penned “The Social Network,”directed by David Fincher.
On Timberlake: “He said he wanted to get to know me,” claims Parker, “but I said, ‘That isn’t going to help you play the part Sorkin has written. That character really isn’t me.’ ”
Turning the recording industry upside down with his groundbreaking co-creation of Napster, we think it is JT who should be upset at the way Parker effected music sales.
Hmm, maybe he is, and perhaps this is a subtle cinematic F.U. to Parker. We’ll never know.
Then again, Justin Timberlake is a musical powerhouse who never lacked in records sales and will not be hurting for money anytime soon.
Make nice boys!