‘The Social Network’ sequel will focus on Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

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

Jesse Eisenberg volition not reprise his breakout relation arsenic Mark Zuckerberg, but alternatively volition beryllium replaced with the much sallow, superior Jeremy Strong.

Best known for playing Kendall Roy successful Succession, Strong is known for his method acting, a method successful which the histrion tries to immerse themselves successful the intelligence and affectional authorities of the character… truthful if Strong abruptly takes up MMA warring and gets truly 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 the emergence of Facebook, near off. Instead, the communicative centers astir Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison), the erstwhile Facebook worker who leaked a monolithic trove of internal documents to a Wall Street Journal newsman (Jeremy Allen White) and accused the institution of prioritizing “profits implicit people” successful 2021.

Among the astir damning revelations from Haugen’s leak was interior probe showing that the institution was good alert that Instagram was harming the 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 marque up conscionable 9% of users.

Zuckerberg and Facebook — rebranded to Meta soon aft Haugen’s leaks — person ever rankled astatine however The Social Network depicts the company’s origin. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg revealed successful an interrogation that helium saw the movie 1 clip arsenic portion of an outing with different Facebook employees, which was arranged due to the fact that helium knew that they would spell spot the movie anyway.

“It was weird, man,” helium said. “They got each these precise circumstantial details of what I was wearing, oregon these circumstantial things correct, but past the full communicative arc astir my motivations and each this worldly were like, wholly wrong.”