‘the Social Network’ Sequel Will Focus On Haugen Leaks, With Jeremy Strong As Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years aft The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin will constitute and nonstop a sequel movie called The Social Reckoning, group for merchandise connected October 9, 2026.

Jesse Eisenberg will not reprise his breakout domiciled arsenic Mark Zuckerberg, but alternatively will beryllium replaced pinch nan much sallow, superior Jeremy Strong.

Best known for playing Kendall Roy successful Succession, Strong is known for his method acting, a method successful which nan character tries to immerse themselves successful nan intelligence and affectional authorities of nan character… truthful if Strong abruptly takes up MMA fighting and gets really excited astir a social metaverse that nary 1 wants, past we’ll cognize that filming is imminent.

This movie won’t prime up straight wherever The Social Network, which chronicled nan emergence of Facebook, near off. Instead, nan communicative centers astir Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison), nan erstwhile Facebook worker who leaked a monolithic trove of internal documents to a Wall Street Journal newsman (Jeremy Allen White) and accused nan institution of prioritizing “profits complete people” successful 2021.

Among nan astir damning revelations from Haugen’s leak was soul investigation showing that nan institution was good alert that Instagram was harming nan intelligence wellness of teenage girls. Haugen said successful a Congressional grounds that Facebook was “literally fanning taste violence” successful Ethiopia, since contented moderation efforts successful non-English languages were nether resourced. Her leaked documents besides revealed that 87% of Meta’s spending connected reducing misinformation went toward English connection content, though English speakers dress up conscionable 9% of users.

Zuckerberg and Facebook — rebranded to Meta soon aft Haugen’s leaks — person ever rankled astatine really The Social Network depicts nan company’s origin. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg revealed successful an question and reply that he saw nan movie 1 clip arsenic portion of an outing pinch different Facebook employees, which was arranged because he knew that they would spell spot nan movie anyway.

“It was weird, man,” he said. “They sewage each these very circumstantial specifications of what I was wearing, aliases these circumstantial things correct, but past nan full communicative arc astir my motivations and each this worldly were like, wholly wrong.”