Apparently, students of John Hopkins University are kinda pissed that filmmakers are pretending that the Homewood campus is Harvard’s campus in a movie about Harvard student and Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.
Because Harvard has a policy prohibiting the production of all commercial films on its campus, filmmakers had little choice in the matter. One Hopkins student went so far as to call the situation “degrading.”
Dear Hopkins: Get over it.
Filming a movie on the “wrong” campus happens all the time for anything from bans on commercial productions to exorbitant fees. Gossip Girl’s “Yale” was actually Columbia and the unnamed campus in Transformers 2 was Penn (mostly). At least you were posing as a pretty school. You’re life could definitely be worse.
Tags: Facebook, Harvard University, John Hopkins
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Don’t forget Gilmore Girls pretending that USC was Yale. That was kind of egregious.