‘The Social Reckoning’ trailer: First look at Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel starring Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg

Sony Pictures has released the archetypal trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited follow-up to The Social Network, offering a glimpse astatine a caller section successful the communicative of Facebook and its arguable power connected modern society.

Set much than a decennary aft the events depicted successful the 2010 Oscar-winning drama, the movie centres connected the fallout from the Facebook Files probe and the disclosures made by erstwhile Facebook worker Frances Haugen. Rather than revisiting the company’s founding years, the sequel examines the scrutiny faced by the societal media elephantine arsenic concerns mounted implicit misinformation, idiosyncratic safety, and the platform’s effect connected nationalist discourse.

Jeremy Strong takes implicit the relation of Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg, succeeding Jesse Eisenberg, whose show successful The Social Network earned wide acclaim and an Academy Award nomination. The trailer shows Zuckerberg preparing to look legislature questioning portion defending the company’s relation successful shaping online communication.

Oscar victor Mikey Madison stars arsenic whistleblower Frances Haugen, portion Jeremy Allen White plays Wall Street Journal newsman Jeff Horwitz, whose reporting helped bring interior Facebook probe into nationalist view. The formed besides includes Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin, and Wunmi Mosaku.

Sorkin returns arsenic some writer and director, expanding his engagement aft winning the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network. Speaking antecedently astir the project, the filmmaker suggested that Facebook’s power connected modern beingness made a follow-up communicative intolerable to ignore.

Released successful 2010, The Social Network became some a captious and commercialized success, earning 8 Academy Award nominations and winning 3 Oscars. The movie is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the defining depictions of Silicon Valley and the modern exertion industry.

Produced by Sorkin alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser, The Social Reckoning volition get successful theatres connected October 9, with a large festival debut expected up of its release.