Facebook doesn’t look like it did in 2010 when ”The social network“Come out, and now not Mark Zuckerberg. Although some names had been floating around the trade, Sony Pictures confirmed that the” succession “star Jeremy Strongnot Jesse Eisenberg, will portray Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s follow -up of “The Social Network.”
Was also announced on Friday: a title for the new filmA release date and the role announcement. The film is called “The Social Reckoning”, which is written and directed this time by Sorkin. It opens in theaters on October 9, 2026. And together with Strong, which is actually invoiced third among the role list, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Bill Burr will all start.
It is a hell -hood role, with Madison who still rides high by “Anora” and white and strong about to divide the screen in “Springsteen: deliver me from nowhere”, Bruce Springsteen Biopic.
Sorkin’s original script for “The Social Reckoning” tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, gets help from Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal Reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that stops blowing the whistle on the social network’s most protected secrets.
Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser produce the film.
“The Social Reckoning” opens the same day as a Jessica Chastain -horror movie called “Other Mommy” and one of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” -animated films.
Sorkin has teased a follow -up of “The Social Network” since 2024 and has publicly said he blames on Facebook for January 6 at Capitol Hill. And while this script is considered original, Last time we wrote about the movieHe was said to be inspired by some Wall Street Journal articles called the Facebook files that showed some of the special rules that Facebook -Execs had and that it was aware of its toxic effect on teens and on the emotional toll it had on friends and families with different opinions and algorithms.
“The Social Network” was directed by David Fincher and written by Sorkin, and it received a best image nomination and a best actor nomination for Eisenberg’s calculated performance as Facebook founder. However, Sorkin won the best adapted script at Oscars among the film’s three statues. It earned $ 224.9 million all over the world.
