Jeremy Strong is Mark Zuckerberg in the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning. Take a look below. It feels fair to say that David Fincher’s The Social Network remains one of the most intriguing films of the 2010s and it only gets better with more watches. It’s not one you necessarily expected a ... First The Social Reckoning trailer drops
Jeremy Strong is Mark Zuckerberg in the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning. Take a look below.
It feels fair to say that David Fincher’s The Social Network remains one of the most intriguing films of the 2010s and it only gets better with more watches.
It’s not one you necessarily expected a sequel to, but in all fairness, Sony Pictures is describing The Social Reckoning as a “companion piece” rather than a sequel. And now there’s a trailer for the film, which is both directed and written by Aaron Sorkin and based on the very real case of the Facebook Files, a series of Wall Street Journal articles which revealed the harmful effects the social media platform had on teens and how Facebook was aware of these.
Here’s that trailer.
Here’s an official synopsis to go with that trailer too: A companion piece to the hit film The Social Network, Sorkin’s original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files. The film is inspired by 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.
The Social Reckoning sure has quite the cast list! Jeremy Strong takes on the role of Mark Zuckerberg while Mikey Madison plays Frances Haugen, the woman who disclosed several of Facebook’s internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played here by Jeremy Allen White.
They’ll be supported by Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin and Billy Magnussen in the film. On top of that, Alexandre Desplat is responsible for the film’s music while Jeff Cronenweth handles the cinematography, so this should be quite something.
The film has been marinating for a good while now. There have been whispers of a sequel to Fincher’s Oscar-winning film for years now and at one point, Sorkin said he was working on a script that was focused on the January 6 Capitol attacks in the US. In 2025, The Social Reckoning was announced as the title and that the story would tackle the case of Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. Eisenberg didn’t return to the role of Zuckerberg, for which he received acclaim and awards-nominations aplenty, because he felt he had outgrown the part but Strong is certainly a strong choice to get to play the social media giant.
The Social Reckoning will hit cinemas 9th October.
