September 27, 2010

The ‘Social Network’ stand-in that you might recognize

When actor Jesse Eisenberg, playing the role of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, runs across the Harvard campus in the much-anticipated David Fincher film opening this week, the Elis among us might not recognize the terrain.

But the Johns Hopkins community will: The Homewood campus was tapped as a stand-in.

The shooting took place over two days in November.