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Facebook Founder Obsessed with Lisbeth Salander?

In “The Social Network,” billionaire-to-be Mark Zuckerberg gets his heart broken (if he has one) by a Boston University co-ed. She’s played by Rooney Mara, David Fincher’s pick to star in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

The brilliantly scripted, deftly delivered opening scene of David Fincher's The Social Network takes place in a bar, where Harvard brainiac Mark Zuckerberg, soon to invent something called "The Facebook," gets epically blown off by his girlfriend, a B.U. student named Erica. Well, the actress sparring with Jesse Eisenberg in that scene is Rooney Mara, and anyone curious to know what Lisbeth Salander is going to look like (with supplemental pierces and tattoos) in Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, well, here she is. Mara doesn't have much screen time in The Social Network, but her character's brutal rejection of Zuckerberg haunts him mightily -- in a sense, she's the cyber-muse that launched Facebook. So, next time up, as the titular Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it's Mara who gets to play the computer nerd – a Swedish computer nerd with martial arts skills and serious sociopathic tendencies.