Mr. Zuckerberg is the protagonist and villain of "The Social Network, " a movie that for all of its snappy dialogue and plot twists is nothing more than just "Revenge of the Nerds" in grown-up clothes.

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There's more to the plot, of course, in a movie that celebrates wild mustangs as the spirit of the Old West. ("Spirit" is, among other things, an exciting Western.) There's an alliance between the stallion and a young Lakota brave named Little Creek.

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Perez wouldn't give away any plot details but suggested that the movie -- researched through "a cursory reading of the Steve Jobs Wikipedia page" -- will be ridiculous enough that it won't run the risk of offending fans of Jobs', who died in October 2011.

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The quirk of this movie is that, for all its pretensions to topical soothsaying and its sombre machinations of plot, it remains, in essence, a love story.

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Plot points have only dribbled out slowly over time because Abrams has said that he wants people to discover the magic of the movie in the theater, not through commercials.

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