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David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network was an accomplishment. It took endless, fast dialogue of people talking at each other about code, and turned it into some gripping drama. Along the way, it earned $226 million worldwide and was nominated for eight Oscars.
A sequel has been in development for a while, and now we know more about it.
Again, Aaron Sorkin wrote the script and will direct. This time, it was inspired by a series of articles written by Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz called The Facebook Files.
According to a report in Deadline, the sequel to The Social Network will focus on the company’s own developing knowledge that its social media was having negative effects on teens and kids, and its algorithm was not necessarily a force for good. The articles linked it to misinformation proliferation.
The articles also tied this misinformation into contributing factors that led to the 2021 U.S. Capitol “insurrection”, a point of view that is in danger of seeming both twee and disengenuous given the events since that day, and the facts that have since come out around a large number of adjacent figures and actions.
The project has also been officially titled as The Social Reckoning.
Castings have also been confirmed. Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong will feature as the older Mark Zuckerberg, with Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen, and Jeremy Allen White as reporter Horowitz. Bill Burr also stars as a fictional character who is described as an amalgamation of several people.
Production is due to start later this year in Vancouver, because taxes, with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing.
The Social Reckoning has an October 9th, 2026, release date.
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