Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong prepare for battle in the trailer for The Social Reckoning.
Sony Pictures is set to release the companion piece to The Social Network in theaters Oct. 9. Aaron Sorkin helms The Social Reckoning from his own script after earning an Oscar for his screenplay for 2010’s The Social Network, directed by David Fincher.
The Social Reckoning 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. Strong stars as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, portraying an older version of the Meta CEO than Jesse Eisenberg’s Oscar-nominated version in the 2010 movie.
“I am here to help Facebook, not hurt it, OK?” Madison says in the footage that debuted earlier this year at CinemaCon.
Later, Strong’s Zuckerberg declares, “People understand that when I say no, that’s the end of the debate.”
The forthcoming film is set 17 years after the events of The Social Network, which focused on Eisenberg’s lead portrayal of Zuckerberg as he created the social media platform and was later sued by co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and the Winklevoss twins (Armie Hammer). Todd Black, Peter Rice and Stuart Besser produce The Social Reckoning alongside Sorkin.
Director Fincher’s The Social Network collected $226 million at the global box office and landed eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture. Sorkin’s win was among the film’s three trips to the podium.
“It’s time to say more,” Sorkin told the CinemaCon crowd about the Facebook saga. He teased about the new movie, “It’s a real David and Goliath story.”
