Fb doesn’t look something prefer it did in 2010 when “The Social Community” got here out, and now neither does Mark Zuckerberg. Although some names had been floating round within the trades, Sony Footage confirmed that “Succession” star Jeremy Sturdy, not Jesse Eisenberg, will painting Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to “The Social Community.”
Additionally introduced on Friday: a title for the brand new movie, a launch date, and the solid announcement. The movie known as “The Social Reckoning,” which is being written and directed this time by Sorkin. It’ll open in theaters on October 9, 2026. And alongside Sturdy, who is definitely billed third among the many solid record, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Invoice Burr will all star.
It’s a helluva solid, with Madison nonetheless driving excessive off “Anora” and White and Sturdy about to share the display in “Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere,” the Bruce Springsteen biopic.
Sorkin’s authentic screenplay for “The Social Reckoning” tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a younger Fb engineer, enlists the assistance of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Avenue Journal reporter, to go on a harmful journey that finally ends up blowing the whistle on the social community’s most guarded secrets and techniques.
Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser are producing the movie.
“The Social Reckoning” is opening the identical day as a Jessica Chastain horror movie known as “Different Mommy” and one of many “Avatar: The Final Airbender” animated movies.
Sorkin has been teasing a follow-up to “The Social Community” since 2024 and has publicly mentioned that he blames Fb for the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. And whereas this screenplay is taken into account authentic, the final time we wrote in regards to the movie, he was mentioned to be impressed by some Wall Avenue Journal articles known as The Fb Recordsdata that confirmed among the particular guidelines Fb execs had and that it was conscious of its poisonous impact on teenagers and on the emotional toll it had on pals and households with differing views — and algorithms.
“The Social Community” was directed by David Fincher and written by Sorkin, and it earned a Greatest Image nomination and a Greatest Actor nomination for Eisenberg’s calculated efficiency because the Fb founder. Sorkin although gained Greatest Tailored Screenplay on the Oscars among the many movie’s three statues. It made $224.9 million worldwide.
