One of director Davids Fincher’s best films (and there’s a lot of competition in his back catalogue vying to be on that list) is The Social Network. Led by Jesse Eisenberg as Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and his creation of Facebook after which he is sued by twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. The film had both critical and commercial success earning $224m off its $40m budget. It was further rewarded with eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Well now there’s news of a follow up and here’s what we know about The Social Network sequel.
- Rather than being titled The Social Network 2 its will be called The Social Reckoning
- Aaron Sorkin who write the first film will also write AND direct the sequel
- The film will star Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong and Bill Burr
- Strong has confirmed that he will play Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning, portraying an older version of the Meta CEO than viewers saw in the 2010 movie.
- Burr is rumoured to be playing a character that is fictional or an amalgamation.
- The new film centres centers on a young Facebook engineer named Frances Haugen (Madison) who teams up with Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (White) on a risky mission to bring attention to the social network’s biggest secrets. The new feature will focus on how the company’s own reporting pointed to the negative effects the its social media was having on teens and kids, how it knew misinformation was proliferating and causing violence and how it contributed to the violent insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
- It is set 17 years after the events of The Social Network
- Production starts filming shortly for a 9th October 2026 release date
……. and that’s what we know about The Social Network sequel so far!
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