The sequel to Academy Award winner
Aaron Sorkin's acclaimed film
"The Social Network" is gearing up for production and Sony has made an official announcement offering several details about the follow-up. The sequel will be titled
"The Social Reckoning", and it will be released in theters on October 9, 2026. Filming is expected to begin next month.
The cast will include Oscar winner
Mikey Madison (
"Anora",
"Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood"), Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner
Jeremy Allen White (
"The Bear",
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere"), Emmy and Grammy nominee
Bill Burr (
"Old Dads",
"The King of Staten Island") and Oscar nominee
Jeremy Strong (
"The Apprentice",
"Succession"). Strong is confirmed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Sorkin writes and directs
"The Social Reckoning", and also produces alongside
Todd Black, Peter Rice and
Stuart Besser.
The sequel has been described as a companion piece to
"The Social Network" that will focus on events that take place nearly two decades after the boy-genius programmer and a troupe of tech pioneers invented what would go on to become the world's largest social media platform.
"The Social Reckoning" tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
Horwitz's reporting, a series of articles known as "The Facebook Files", was published in 2021 and exposed Facebook for its harmful effects on teens and its knowing proliferation of misinformation, which contributed to acts of political violence.
"The Social Network" was released in theaters in October 2010, grossing $226 million worldwide and receiving eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. It won for Sorkin's Adapted Screenplay (loosely based on
Ben Mezrich's book
"The Accidental Billionaires"), Film Editing and Original Score (
Trent Reznor and
Atticus Ross).
