9 Movie Biopics Despised By Their Own Subjects

1. Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)

The Social Network And yet, nobody has as publicly denounced their own biopic as Mark Zuckerberg, and given how adamant we all were pre-release that a movie about the making of Facebook would be terrible, that's not all that surprising. To be fair, at least Zuckerberg doesn't seem too outraged, and he seems generally happy to discuss the sexed-up telling of the Facebook myth that Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher created. Zuckerberg praised the costume department for nailing his "look", though conceded that "there are hugely basic things that they got wrong, too... made it seem like my whole motivation for building Facebook was so I could get girls, right? And they completely left out the fact that my girlfriend, I've been dating since before I started Facebook." Still, Zuckerberg's general demeanour suggests that he would've disliked the movie no matter the final product, remarking, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive". As for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, he held his hands up from day one that the project never aspired to be accurate, and merely to entertain. Which real-life subject has the most right to be angry about their depiction? Let us know in the comments below.
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