‘The Social Network’ sequel starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong gets official title, release date

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Aaron Sorkin's much-anticipated sequel to The Social Networknow has an authoritative rubric and merchandise date. Titled The Social Reckoning, the movie is acceptable to deed theatres connected October 9, 2026, accumulation workplace Sony Pictures announced connected Thursday.

Oscar victor Mikey Madison, Golden Globe and Emmy Award victor Jeremy Allen White, Emmy and Grammy nominee Bill Burr and Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong volition prima successful The Social Reckoning. Jeremy Strong is acceptable to play the relation of Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg, reported Variety.

The Social Reckoning is written and directed by Sorkin, who besides produces alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice and Stuart Besser. Production for the movie is expected to commence adjacent month. Described arsenic a "companion piece" to The Social Network, the caller movie focuses connected events that instrumentality spot astir 2 decades aft the boy-genius programmer and a troupe of tech pioneers invented what would spell connected to go the world's largest societal media platform.

The Social Reckoning tells the existent communicative of however Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the assistance of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to spell connected a unsafe travel that ends up blowing the whistle connected the societal network's astir guarded secrets.

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Horwitz's reporting, a bid of articles known arsenic The Facebook Files, was published successful 2021 and exposed Facebook for its harmful effects connected teens and its knowing proliferation of misinformation, which contributed to acts of governmental violence.

The Social Network besides released successful October 2010, and was a captious and commercialized hit, earning 226 cardinal USD astatine the planetary container bureau and receiving 8 Academy Award nominations, including champion picture. Sorkin's triumph for champion adapted screenplay (the movie was loosely based connected Ben Mezrich's publication The Accidental Billionaires) was 1 of 3 Oscars it yet took home.