Washington, DC [US], September 27 (ANI): Academy Award-winning filmmaker Aaron Sorkin’s much-anticipated sequel to ‘The Social Network’ now 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 begin subsequent month.
Described as a ‘companion piece’ to ‘The Social Network,’ the brand new movie focuses on occasions that happen practically twenty years after the boy-genius programmer and a troupe of tech pioneers invented what would go on to turn out to be the world’s largest social media platform, reported Variety.
‘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.
Horwitz’s reporting, a sequence of articles generally known as ‘The Facebook Files,’ was revealed in 2021 and uncovered Facebook for its dangerous results on teenagers and its understanding proliferation of misinformation, which contributed to acts of political violence.
2010’s ‘The Social Network,’ additionally launched in October, was a vital and business hit, incomes 226 million USD on the world field workplace and receiving eight Academy Award nominations, together with finest image, in response to Variety.
Sorkin’s win for finest tailored screenplay (the movie was loosely based mostly on Ben Mezrich’s e book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’) was one in all three Oscars it in the end took house. (ANI)