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

Fifteen years after “The Social Community,” Aaron Sorkin will write and direct a sequel movie known 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 might be changed with the extra sallow, severe Jeremy Sturdy.

Finest recognized for enjoying Kendall Roy in “Succession,” Sturdy is thought for his methodology appearing, a method by which the actor tries to immerse themselves within the psychological and emotional state of the character… so if Sturdy all of a sudden takes up MMA combating and will get actually excited a few social metaverse that nobody desires, then we’ll know that filming is imminent.

This movie gained’t choose up straight the place “The Social Community,” which chronicled the rise of Fb, left off. As a substitute, the story facilities round Frances Haugen (performed by Mikey Madison), the previous Fb worker who leaked an enormous trove of inner paperwork 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 nicely conscious that Instagram was harming the psychological well being of teenage women. Haugen stated in congressional testimony that Fb was “actually 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 lowering 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 all the time 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 obtained all these very particular particulars of what I used to be sporting, or these particular issues right, however then the entire narrative arc round my motivations and all these things have been like, fully incorrect.”