When it was first announced that David Fincher, the man behind pitch black films like “Se7en,” “Fight Club” and “Zodiac,” would be turning his attention to the story of how Facebook was developed it raised a lot of eyebrows — including mine. Well, the story of “The Social Network” just keeps getting more interesting.

Yesterday, it was announced on the NIN official website that frontman, Trent Reznor, is currently scoring the film along with collaborator Atticus Ross.  Here is the announcement in its entirety:

I was planning on taking some time off after the continual waves of touring that ended last fall and spend this year experimenting around with what would become How To Destroy Angels and some new NIN. Well, that plan didn’t work out so well. David Fincher started inquiring 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 realized what he was up to, I said goodbye to that free time I had planned. 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.

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. The level of excellence that David operates on is inspiring and the entire process has been challenging and truly enjoyable.

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 opens Oct 1 in the US with the record likely available a couple of weeks ahead of that.

Speaking of the film… it’s really fucking good. And dark!

If Trent Reznor is calling this film dark, I’m inclined to believe him. My guess is “The Social Network” is going to be a lot less “nerdy guy writes some code and gets rich,” and more “nerdy guy writes some code and gets rich and turns into a complete asshole and destroys his (ironically) social life in favor of power.  Nerdy guy’s rise to fame and fortune was faster than he expected and his life turns into shambles.  He’s lonely, hateful and disliked by all even with 500 million friends.”  But that’s just my guess.