Sony has given The Social Network 2 an official title and a release date. It’s called The Social Reckoning and it’s due out in October 2026. Update 29th September 2025: Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel has an official title, as announced by Sony. It’s now called The Social Reckoning, and it’s a shade over a ... The Social Network 2 is now called The Social Reckoning, out in 2026
Sony has given The Social Network 2 an official title and a release date. It’s called The Social Reckoning and it’s due out in October 2026.
Update 29th September 2025: Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel has an official title, as announced by Sony. It’s now called The Social Reckoning, and it’s a shade over a year away – it’s been scheduled for release in US cinemas on the 9th October 2026.
It’ll be quite a different film from 2010’s The Social Network, with Jeremy Strong taking over the Mark Zuckerberg role from Jesse Eisenberg. Sorkin’s also taking over from David Fincher in the director’s chair, though he’s no slacker in the filmmaking stakes – his previous work includes Molly’s Game, Being The Ricardos and The Trial Of The Chicago 7.
Sorkin’s set to begin filming his social sequel in October according to Variety, with the aim being to get it ready for awards contention next year.
Our original story follows…
26th September 2025: Following news that Jeremy Strong was joining Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel comes another casting announcement. Comedian and actor Bill Burr is also set to join the production, meaning he could share the screen with the likes of Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White if the talks result in signed contracts for those concerned.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Burr will play either a fictional character or an “amalgamation” of several real people with a connection to Facebook.
Following on from David Fincher’s The Social Network, released in 2010 and co-written by Sorkin, The Social Network Part II will explore the impact of journalist Jeff Horowitz’s Wall Street Journal published in 2021 – an expose of Facebook’s inner workings and how it handled dangerous content.
It’s thought that Jeremy Allen White will play Horowitz, while Madison will play Frances Haugen, a key whistleblower in the journalist’s investigation. In a more left-field bit of casting, Jeremy Strong will play Facebook/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg – taking over from Jesse Eisenberg, who played the same figure in The Social Network. It’s fair to say they’re very different actors.
The Social Network Part II is set to begin filming later this year. More as we get it.
Earlier…
31st July 2025: If screenwriter and filmmaker Aaron Sorkin gets his way, then Anora star Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White, whose career’s cooking following the success of TV drama The Bear, will star in a sequel to 2010’s The Social Network.
Sorkin first talked about his ‘further adventures of Facebook’ movie in April 2024, when it was described by industry sources as a “Social Network-adjacent screenplay.” Since then, things seem to have moved on a bit, with Sorkin said to be directing as well as writing, and Sony Pictures handling distribution.
According to Deadline, which has the news on Madison (pictured above) and White’s potential roles, the film will be based on Jeff Horowitz’s Wall Street Journal article The Facebook Files, published in 2021. That investigative piece laid bare the inner workings of the social media giant, its algorithms, and how much it knew about the spread of divisive and even dangerous content on its platforms. Sorkin’s film could also explore Facebook’s alleged impact on the January 6th Capitol attack.
“Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible,” Sorkin said on a podcast last year. “Because that is what will increase engagement. That is what will get you to — what they call inside the hallways of Facebook – ‘the infinite scroll’ … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity.”
If deals are made, then it’s thought that Mikey Madison will play a whistleblower who helped expose Facebook’s practices, while White will play the WSJ’s Jeff Horowitz. It’s currently unknown whether Jesse Eisenberg will return to play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
The original Social Network, directed by David Fincher, was a frostily stylish origin story about Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook, with the co-founder portrayed as a socially-awkward computer whizz whose creation was essentially born out of a series of petty grudges.
Since then, Facebook has grown into a behemoth, also taking in such platforms as Instagram and WhatsApp; like the rest of Silicon Valley, it’s also been overtaken by all sorts of weird ideas, including its money-losing flirtations with the metaverse and, most recently, a pair of AI-powered spectacles. The speculative fever around AI is such that Zuckerberg reportedly offered an executive at OpenAI $1bn to join his company. Again: things are getting weird in Silicon Valley.
It’s still early days for what Deadline calls The Social Network Part II. We’ll keep you posted.
