The Social Network sequel starring Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong will get official title, launch date

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Aaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated sequel to The Social Networknow has an official title and launch date. Titled The Social Reckoning, the movie is ready to hit theatres on October 9, 2026, manufacturing studio Sony Pictures introduced on Thursday.

Oscar winner Mikey Madison, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Jeremy Allen White, Emmy and Grammy nominee Bill Burr and Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong will star in The Social Reckoning. Jeremy Strong is ready to play the position of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, reported Variety.

The Social Reckoning is written and directed by Sorkin, who additionally produces alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice and Stuart Besser. Production for the movie is predicted to start subsequent month. Described as a “companion piece” to The Social Network, the brand new movie focuses on occasions that happen practically 20 years after the boy-genius programmer and a troupe of tech pioneers invented what would go on to develop into the world’s largest social media platform.

The Social Reckoning tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a younger Facebook engineer, enlists the assistance of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a harmful journey that finally ends up blowing the whistle on the social community’s most guarded secrets and techniques.

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Horwitz’s reporting, a collection of articles often called The Facebook Files, was printed in 2021 and uncovered Facebook for its dangerous results on teenagers and its understanding proliferation of misinformation, which contributed to acts of political violence.

The Social Network additionally launched in October 2010, and was a vital and business hit, incomes 226 million USD on the international field workplace and receiving eight Academy Award nominations, together with greatest image. Sorkin’s win for greatest tailored screenplay (the movie was loosely primarily based on Ben Mezrich’s e-book The Accidental Billionaires) was one in every of three Oscars it in the end took residence.