The Social Community sequel has a brand new title and launch date.
Aaron Sorkin’s eagerly-awaited follow-up to the 2010 blockbuster, which instructed the story of Fb’s creation and starred Jesse Eisenberg as founder Mark Zuckerberg, shall be known as The Social Reckoning and shall be launched on October 9, 2026.
Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White will star within the sequel, alongside Jeremy Sturdy.
Sturdy is ready to take over from Eisenberg in portraying Fb founder Zuckerberg, with author /director Sorkin changing David Fincher behind the digital camera.
The brand new film will deal with Fb engineer Frances Haugen (Madison) who groups up with Wall Avenue Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (White) to carry consideration to the social community’s largest secrets and techniques.
The screenplay delves into the story behind the Wall Avenue Journal’s Fb Information, which had been a collection of October 2021 articles by Horowitz.
The items sought to reveal Fb’s interior workings, and the harms attributable to them.
The film can even delve into the impression the location has on youngsters and preteens, in addition to violence, and its wider impact on nations all over the world.
Again in 2021, Sorkin opened up on his plans for a sequel, insisting “what has been happening with Fb these previous couple of years is a narrative very a lot value telling”.
He instructed The City podcast final yr: “Fb has been, amongst different issues, tuning its algorithm to advertise essentially the most divisive materials doable.
“As a result of that’s what will improve engagement. That’s what will get you to — what they name contained in the hallways of Fb — ‘the infinite scroll’…
“There’s speculated to be a relentless pressure at Fb between development and integrity. There isn’t. It’s simply development.”
