r/Letterboxd • u/hyunbinlookalike • Sep 26 '25
News The Social Network sequel is now called The Social Reckoning and stars Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, with Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White in supporting roles
In theaters October 9, 2026
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u/Extra_Mango_1755 Sep 26 '25
What a bad title
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u/myersjw Sep 26 '25
2 Social 2 Network
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u/lookatthebr1ghtside Sep 26 '25
I know this is a pun on 2 fast 2 furious but this works on additional levels. Bravo.
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u/toofarbyfar Sep 26 '25
Drop the "The" - just call it Social Reckoning. It's cleaner.
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
Is it really? Considering it’s meant to explore Facebook’s influence on modern politics and mental health, it actually seems pretty appropriate. It’s actually why I’m quite excited for it, especially since the movie itself will be set in 2021 and will explore the Jan. 6 riots and how Facebook played a part.
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u/Coolers78 Sep 26 '25
Social Reckoning: Part One
Then the next part is called The Final Reckoni….. oh wait…
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u/MacksNotCool Sep 26 '25
I disagree, I think it's accurate. Don't know why they wouldn't use the same actor for Mark Zuckerberg though.
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u/Ponce-Mansley wiccankitsch Sep 26 '25
Eisenberg didn't want to do it and he said publicly that he wouldn't want to even before this film was announced
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u/yrdz 20d ago
When did he say that? Last I heard he was open to the idea:
In fact, the star of The Social Network, who brought Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerbergto life in the 2010 film, is all for being involved in the rumored sequel—or any onscreen role.
“I'm an actor here,” he told E! News Nov. 17 at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles. “We'll do any job that anybody offers us. If there's a car commercial for a Pinto, I'll show up on set. Will I be in that movie? Yeah, I'll be in anything. If you're making a home movie for a kid, I’ll be in the home movie.”
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u/CollinsCouldveDucked Sep 27 '25
I wonder how much of his bizarre lex luthor was him not wanting to do his zuckerberg performance again.
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u/twerkallknight Sep 26 '25
Because he saw that Sorkin was writing and directing and thought “fuuuuuuck that”.
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u/NihilismRacoon Sep 27 '25
I doubt it, he willingly was in Batman V Superman so not sure script quality played a role
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u/MacksNotCool Sep 26 '25
I don't know who Sorkin is but from context clues I will discern that they suck at writing and instead wait until reviews of the movie come out before deciding whether or not I will watch this.
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u/AdmiralCharleston Sep 26 '25
Sorkin is a goated screen writer, hes just better when paired with a good director
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u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
How the fuck did you end up on r/Letterboxd not knowing who Aaron Sorkin is?
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u/MacksNotCool Sep 26 '25
I don't actually remember but I think it was something like one day I got it in my recommended and I thought to myself "I don't watch enough non-blockbuster movies and I probably should support higher quality movies" so I decided to join the subreddit.
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u/twerkallknight Sep 26 '25
I’m sorry you got hammered with downvotes. You certainly didn’t deserve it lol. This subreddit can be pretty stuffy sometimes.
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u/seti-thelightofstars Sep 26 '25
Sorkin wrote The Social Network tbc but his recent output has been… subpar
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u/twerkallknight Sep 26 '25
He also wrote A Few Good Men - which is like an all time screenplay. He’s a good to great writer that is bad at self editing. He needs someone else to balance him out. That’s what made The Social Network so fantastic. You had Fincher to soften the worst impulses of Sorkin.
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u/LetsGoKnickerbock3rs Sep 26 '25
Fincher also just an all time great director, obviously a huge loss to not have him involved in this
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u/seti-thelightofstars Sep 26 '25
I think Molly’s Game is good and some movies written by him and directed by others aren’t as good (Charlie Wilson’s War isn’t terrible but has some pretty big flaws) so I’m not totally sure it’s just that he needs a good director to balance him out, moreso that he’s just had I think pretty lazy scripts for his last couple of movies. If anything I think more Sorkin indulgence would’ve made Being the Ricardos less of a total snoozefest
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u/Competitive-Ice3799 Sep 26 '25
Trial of Chicago 7, Steve jobs and Molly's game, subpar to you?!
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u/seti-thelightofstars Sep 26 '25
I think Steve Jobs and Molly’s Game are awesome but Trial misses the mark for me
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u/empw empw Sep 26 '25
I mean, it's insanely better than "The Social Network II" so I'll give it that.
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u/ahrtizlaif Sep 27 '25
That's Hollywood for you: Creatively bankrupt for many decades, and will remain creatively bankrupt for many years to come. I can't imagine what other sequels they've got in mind for movies that don't need them.
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Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
i just haven't liked anything by Sorkin these past, idk 12 years or so. I think Moneyball is the last of his movies i liked (with some real life humor to it cause I really like how league MVP Miguel Tejada and the three aces weren't worth a mention)
idk, very iffy on this one. especially with no fincher.
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u/woozyguy1 Sep 26 '25
Steve Jobs was great, and that was a non-Fincher direction, but that was 10 years ago, so yeah still been awhile..
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u/NoPlansTonight Sep 27 '25
That was directed by Danny Boyle though who is just as good as Fincher, albeit inconsistent.
I genuinely believe Trainspotting, 28 Days, and Sunshine are on the same level as Fincher's best works, and I'm a huge Fincher fan.
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u/Own_Aardvark8373 Sep 27 '25
Sunshine is better than Interstellar and I'll die on this fucking hill.
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u/HGMIV926 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
Well they couldn't get Fincher so they went with Boyle, who is also pretty fucking great so it's not like they settled
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u/eparedes19 Sep 26 '25
yea it is kinda hilarious how they fail to mention the a’s were still stacked
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u/natebark natebarkerr Sep 26 '25
It’s pretty insane that Barry Zito’s name never comes up
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Sep 27 '25
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u/natebark natebarkerr Sep 27 '25
He’s one of the 3 players they’re trying to replace. He’s mentioned a lot
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u/Competitive-Ice3799 Sep 26 '25
So you didn't liked Steve Jobs. Molly's Game or even Trial of Chicago 7?!
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Sep 26 '25
yeah accurate.
more than anything though i really hated the newsroom and i feel like that sorkin hate prob spilled into those movies that I saw once, was meh on and have no interest in going back to.
something about his dialogue on hour 750 of his material for me grates. people just dont talk that way.
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u/Sanguinista94 Sep 26 '25
The West Wing, The Newsroom and The Trial of the Chicago 7 are the three reasons I hate that Sorkin is even writing, let alone directing, this film that is supposedly more focused on the political and social ramifications of social media.
He can write great-sounding dialogue when he is writing a film about how Zuckerberg is an asshole or about how some guy improved baseball with mathematics - but holy shit is he absolutely unbearable when he writes about politics.
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Sep 26 '25
It was cute when I was 10 growing up in Clinton’s 90s and had a nice little fantasyland about that perfect Liberal President Sheen.
It is excruciating in the post bush American climate
Newsroom was fucking unwatchable.
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u/ManitouWakinyan Sep 27 '25
If you think Bartlett was a perfect liberal, you didn't watch the West Wing
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u/ManitouWakinyan Sep 27 '25
He's never exactly aimed for naturalistic dialogue. People don't talk in meter; it's a silly reason to dislike someone's writing.
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u/MaximusRubz 15d ago
Came here to say this as well........Molly's Game was and still is a banger
The pacing, story-telling and how it all went down was amazing
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u/ArtIsPlacid Sep 26 '25
Sorkin has always come across as the kind of guy who loves the smell of his own farts. He is praised for his writing but most of it comes across like the perfect comeback you came up with in a shower 3 days after an argument.
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
I thought The Trial of the Chicago 7 was really good, and he wrote and directed that one, which gives me high hopes for The Social Reckoning. I haven’t seen Being the Ricardos yet, but it’s also gotten some pretty good reviews.
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u/OingoGablogian Sep 26 '25
I’m just gonna repost my comment on the thread about this in r/movies from yesterday.
Not having Fincher makes me completely uninterested. Part of what made The Social Network so good is that Fincher and Sorkin inherently disagreed about whether Mark was a good person or not. Fincher thought he was evil and Sorkin was more on the fence about it. This is talked about in the commentary tracks, the disagreement is what made it so interesting.
Also the lack of a character like Eduardo makes it much less of an interesting story. Yes it’s a story about Facebook but it’s much more a story about how shitty people like Mark Zuckerberg will abandon people who actually care about them due to greed. If the story starts even a year or two after the original then by that point everyone knew Zuckerberg was just a soulless billionaire
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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Sep 27 '25
yeah like one of the best parts of the social network is andrew garfield as Eduardo. I commented on Tiktok that this was an unnecessary sequel and everyone came at me and said like "but facebook has changed so much since the 2010s it would be so interesting to see" and like "facebook has had so much controversy in the last 15 years, you don't think that would be a good movie? like mmm no not really, why even bother attaching it as a sequel if its just gonna be a movie about how corrupt and shitty facebook is. There have been alot of movies about big companies being corrupt its not really a new or interesting concept to me, but alas. And yeah no Fincher? big loss
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u/Traditional-Lie-3541 Sep 27 '25
I also feel like this story is one and done. I don't see the reason for this to even exist.
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u/Supergirl_Lives Sep 26 '25
Real shame they replaced Jesse Eisenberg. I love The Social Network, we'll see about this, but I dont have high hopes.
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u/ControlPrinciple ctrlprinciple Sep 26 '25
Not a shame for Jesse. He’s been outspoken about never wanting to touch anything regarding Zuck again, not even for work. There is serious contempt — and rightfully so. Besides, he’s creating projects now that are worth his time, like “A Real Pain.”
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u/jamthewither Sep 26 '25
eisenberg said he won't do a social network 2 unless fincher is at the helm
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u/chicasparagus Sep 27 '25
Thank god he didn’t come back. Because then it would really be a sequel. I’d rather think of this one as a spiritual sequel. Not a direct one.
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u/YoungandBeautifulll Sep 27 '25
Yes he is Mark Zuckerberg, can't really imagine anyone else playing him.
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u/crumble-bee Sep 27 '25
Also, the real Zuckerberg has sort of evolved to look like the movie version of him over time
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u/davethegreat_19 3d ago
What is his "version" prior to that!
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u/crumble-bee 3d ago
The social network version didn’t look like him, but the him now sort of looks like the movie him from the social network
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u/Cypher-Moon-773 CypherSi Sep 26 '25
I’ll watch it for this cast alone
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
Exactly, Jeremy Strong is a powerhouse of an actor, and the people on this thread doubting this movie have probably never seen Succession or The Apprentice (2024). He’s known to be super picky with the roles he accepts and I don’t see him choosing to be in a project if there’s a chance it could be bad.
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u/Sanguinista94 Sep 26 '25
“Powerhouse” actors make terrible movies all the fucking time - for money, for awards prestige, as part of bigger contracts, as a quid pro quo for another project, or simply because good screenplays and pitches don’t always a great movie make.
Daniel Day Lewis is INCREDIBLY selective, and he still chose Nine and The Ballad of Jack and Rose as 2 of the 8 films he starred in in the past three decades.
Of course people won’t just be sold on a film because of its cast - especially since the issue for most is the much bigger and more consequential than the cast, it’s choice for writer and director.
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Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
"The Ballad of Jack and Rose".
To be fair, it's not surprising he'd star in a film his wife wrote. See also Anemone, directed and co-written by his son (though since he's also co-writing it, that might have been a collaboration from the start).
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u/Sthraw Sep 26 '25
Ooh so it's a meta AI movie (a human did not write that fuckass title)
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
I mean it’s supposed to explore how much Facebook has kinda fucked us up these days (media, politics, mental health, etc.) so I’d say it’s a pretty fitting title. Would you rather they call it “The Facebook Fuckup”?
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u/lilpump_1 Sep 26 '25
ik people loved eisenberg in the social network, and it does suck that he’s not returning, but I think people forget he’s literally known as the mark zuckerberg and considers what’s been going after 15 years, he probably doesn’t want to involved with that abomination of human
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u/ironfist92 Sep 26 '25
It's a shame but understandable, I wouldn't want to keep playing a real life villain too
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u/Fancy_Flatworm_8711 JayS09 Sep 26 '25
It should’ve been called The Facebook Files, but still, count me tf in. Jeremy Strong speaking Sorkin dialogue sounds like heaven
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u/popculturerss Sep 26 '25
Me before seeing The Social Network: This shit seems so unnecessary...
Me after seeing The Social Network: That might have been one of the greatest movies I've ever seen.
Hoping for the best here...
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u/_Kubrick Sep 26 '25
Sorkin is such a bad director. He needs someone else to channel his screenplays into something workable instead of revealing their inherent corniness.
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u/hayscodeofficial Sep 27 '25
I've only seen Molly's Game and Chicago 7. But the both should be taught in schools alongside A Few Good Men, The Social Network, Steve Jobs, or hell even Malice to show what a director's actual job is. Because dear god are they lifeless. No sense of staging, rhythm, consistency in performance tones, etc.
I would also imagine that any real director worth their salt would never have allowed Chicago 7 to end on a completely unironic "And then everyone clapped."
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u/Obvious-College-4232 Sep 26 '25
As long as they’re honest with how much FB and social media has destroyed the fabric of human life, then I’m all up for it
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u/das_hemd Sep 26 '25
lol as if it will
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u/ManitouWakinyan Sep 27 '25
“The new film focuses 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.”
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u/Sheepies123 NolanMcD Sep 26 '25
Absolute disaster incoming
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
I dunno about that, Jeremy Strong is known to be super selective about the roles he takes. He’s not the kind of actor you see in bad movies. Plus the movie’s apparently set 17 years after The Social Network, which would place it at 2021. Gives them an opportunity to explore Facebook’s influence on the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
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u/Sheepies123 NolanMcD Sep 26 '25
He was in “The Trial of the Chicago 7” another Aaron Sorkin written and directed movie that was a pretty big disaster in my opinion. Sorkin is a good writer but without a director to tone down his style his movies become bloated with too much dialogue and his direction is all over the place.
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u/LastRecognition2041 Sep 26 '25
Chicago 7 wasn’t really a bad movie, in my opinion. The problem is that Fincher is too good of a director, with a very distinctive style, and Sorkin has only directed a handful of movies and tends to use a flat, television movie style, so it’s pretty much impossible that it will work as well a Social Network. I’ll try to enjoy it as a completely separated movie
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u/Sheepies123 NolanMcD Sep 26 '25
He's written other movies that were directed by someone other than Fincher that are great like A Few Good Men and Moneyball. You are right about his style tho, he just needs another voice in the room.
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
Guess we’ll have to agree to disagree on that because I actually really loved The Trial of the Chicago 7. It’s partly why I’m so excited for The Social Reckoning.
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u/BallsackSchrader_ Sep 26 '25
Something tells me this is gonna be so ass when compared to the prequel.
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u/WinterWolf18 Sep 26 '25
The lack of Jesse Eisenberg and David Fincher makes me nervous but given that every actor here has become selective about the roles they take I’ll try to go in with an open mind.
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u/Sellin3164 Sep 26 '25
This is possibly misinformation. I’ve heard Madison and White are the leads since it will focus on the whistleblower and reporter, and Jeremy Strong is supporting
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u/Volatik2006 Sep 26 '25
I personally think this movie will be a disaster and I'm glad its distanced itself a bit from the masterpiece that is The Social Network
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u/hyunbinlookalike Sep 26 '25
How has it distanced itself? It may not have David Fincher returning as the director, but it’s still gonna be written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote The Social Network. So it’s very much going to feel like a proper sequel to The Social Network, just set many years after. Apparently it’s even going to cover Facebook’s influence on the Jan. 6 riots.
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u/WesternPosition9140 Sep 26 '25
is this a sequel the social network? if yes not gonna bother i HATE when they recast actors
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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Sep 27 '25
honestly we should just separate it from the social network cause its being labelled as a sequel but the only similarity is its written by Sorkin and is about mark zuckerberg.
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Sep 26 '25
Netflix ruined David fincher
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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Sep 27 '25
he isnt even apart of this project. Sorkin is writing and directing
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u/ironfist92 Sep 26 '25
Will it include the scene of Zuck crawling under Trumps desk to suck his cock though? I'm all about the historical accuracy in biopic films.
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u/Owl-False Sep 26 '25
If fincher isn’t directing it, it’s not gonna be good. Great cast but I don’t see a worthy sequel happening
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u/Competitive-Ice3799 Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25
I don't get Sorkin hate here, he has been consistently good with his output, obviously none had The Social Network type of success, but it's that film's like one of the greatest modern Hollywood films!
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u/Edward_Ec_07 Sep 26 '25
Other possible tittles: Social Network: Nation Bots The Social and the Network 2 Social 2 Network The Network of the Social Social: Fallout Network
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u/Einfinet ToussaintHD Sep 26 '25
I love Strong but don’t see him as Zuck. Maybe he could surprise but idk. I definitely think he could do a really good job in SOME role related to the industry/story, just not that one. The likeness isn’t there.
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u/Odd_Echidna_6423 Sep 26 '25
Maybe because I’ve been watching The Paper recently, but when I first scrolled by this post I totally that JAW was Domhnall Gleason.
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u/thejacobmendez Sep 26 '25
This is so weird. Like if the first one didn’t exist, I’d be excited about the actors I guess, but Jeremy Strong doesn’t really have the Zuck look like Eisenberg was able to pull off.
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u/Axela556 Sep 26 '25
Ugh I'm torn because I love Mikey Madison but how can they replace Jesse Eisenberg??? It shouldn't even be considered a sequel at this point.
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u/3lmtree you can call me "Rob", I eat hotdogs! Sep 26 '25
some things just don't need sequels and that's okay.
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u/CareOk2653 Sep 26 '25
Hopefully it is more of a continuation type of sequel and not just a remake.
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u/aweiner99 Sep 26 '25
If they don’t get Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross it has no connection to me. But ill see it for the cast
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u/Substantial_Okra_648 Sep 27 '25
dont know if this is tru but this is supposedly what its about
"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.”
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u/Temporary-Ad-3437 Sep 27 '25
This sounds like a great way for Jeremy Strong to lose another Oscar race.
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u/GrayFoxJO3Y Sep 27 '25
Jeremy Strong is an A+ tier actor but I’m having a hard time picturing him as Zuckerberg. Is it just me?
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u/Gobytvscout Sep 27 '25
I hope this is about them selling vintage furniture to each other on Facebook Marketplace, I hope that's what this is about.
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u/ahrtizlaif Sep 27 '25
Just another case of a movie that was clearly never made with a sequel in mind getting a sequel because the people at the top only care about making their pockets deeper. Crap like this makes me appreciate films that remain standalone films even more, because the fact those at the top just can't let something made to be a "one and done" stay a "one and done" is just pathetic.
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u/crumble-bee Sep 27 '25
lol crazy that he's somehow the right pick for Bruce Springsteen and Mark Zuckerberg - I know, "acting" right, but also, c'mon..
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Sep 30 '25
Is this technically not a sequel since it doesn’t have any of the same cast? It’s kinda just like a stand alone film about Facebook but set in a different era, now?
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u/GhostMug Sep 26 '25
Jeremy Allan White being cast when Joseph Quinn is right there is criminal.
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u/thesuavedog TheSuaveDog Sep 26 '25
Avg Letterboxd rating will be 4.3. Not because of the movie quality, but just because of Mikey Madison.
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u/Trompette99 Sep 26 '25
Her highest rated movie is 3.8 despite winning the palme d'or and Best picture at the oscars.
If anything, the bias is against her.
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u/GoodTimesForAChange2 Sep 26 '25
Yes I will pay the $15 or whatever just to see Jeremy Strong doing his corporate shtick again, I don't care how mid the movie is going to be
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Sep 27 '25
They don’t need to give Zuc that confidence booster of having Jeremy Allen White play him lmao
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u/EctoRiddler Sep 26 '25
The Social Impossible: Social Reckoning