‘The Social Community’ sequel will deal with Haugen leaks, with Jeremy Sturdy as Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years after “The Social Community,” Aaron Sorkin will write and direct a sequel movie referred to as “The Social Reckoning,” set for launch on October 9, 2026.

Jesse Eisenberg is not going to reprise his breakout position as Mark Zuckerberg, however as a substitute will probably be changed with the extra sallow, severe Jeremy Sturdy.

Greatest identified for enjoying Kendall Roy in “Succession,” Sturdy is thought for his method acting, a way through which the actor tries to immerse themselves within the psychological and emotional state of the character… so if Sturdy immediately takes up MMA preventing and will get actually excited a few social metaverse that nobody desires, then we’ll know that filming is imminent.

This movie received’t decide up straight the place “The Social Community,” which chronicled the rise of Fb, left off. As an alternative, the story facilities round Frances Haugen (performed by Mikey Madison), the previous Fb worker who leaked a large trove of internal documents to a Wall Avenue Journal reporter (performed by Jeremy Allen White) and accused the corporate of prioritizing “earnings over individuals” in 2021.

Among the many most damning revelations from Haugen’s leak was inner analysis displaying that the corporate was properly conscious that Instagram was harming the psychological well being of teenage women. Haugen stated in congressional testimony that Fb was “literally fanning ethnic violence” in Ethiopia, since content material moderation efforts in non-English languages have been under-resourced. Her leaked paperwork additionally revealed that 87% of Meta’s spending on decreasing misinformation went towards English language content material, although English audio system make up simply 9% of customers.

Zuckerberg and Fb — rebranded to Meta shortly after Haugen’s leaks — have at all times rankled at how “The Social Community” depicts the corporate’s origin. Earlier this 12 months, Zuckerberg revealed in an interview that he noticed the film one time as a part of an outing with different Fb workers, which was organized as a result of he knew that they might go see the film anyway.

“It was bizarre, man,” he stated. “They acquired all these very particular particulars of what I used to be carrying, or these particular issues appropriate, however then the entire narrative arc round my motivations and all these things have been like, utterly unsuitable.”