Aaron Sorkin’s Social Network Sequel Might Recast Mark Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin is penning and directing a follow-up to The Social Network, and Jeremy Strong is reportedly nan lead campaigner to play Mark Zuckerberg. “Sources opportunity nary general connection has been presented but that he is nan apical prime to play nan Facebook founder,” according to Deadline. Jesse Eisenberg played nan domiciled successful nan first film.

Deadline reported connected nan new film, The Social Network Part II, late past month. It will apparently delve into nan communicative of The Facebook Files bid of articles from The Wall Street Journal, which reported connected harms caused by Meta’s platforms (at nan time, nan institution was called Facebook) based connected leaked documents. 

Last night, Deadline also said that Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White are besides starring picks for roles successful nan caller film. However, for illustration pinch Strong, “no general offers person been fixed to either actor,” according to Deadline’s “insiders.” Deadline said that White will “ideally” play Jeff Horwitz, a erstwhile WSJ journalist who wrote galore of nan articles successful The Facebook Files series, while Madison will play Frances Haugen, a erstwhile Facebook worker who was the whistleblower down nan documents.

The first Social Network movie was released successful 2010.