Sony has released the first trailer for The Social Reckoning, arriving in theaters on October 9. Set 17 years after The Social Network, the film follows a young Facebook engineer and a Wall Street Journal reporter as they dig into the platform’s secrets—featur
The first images of Jeremy Strong as an older Mark Zuckerberg are here—and they arrive with a date stamped firmly in the calendar. Sony has released the first trailer for The Social Reckoning ahead of its theatrical release on October 9.
The follow-up jumps 17 years after the events portrayed in The Social Network. This time, the story centers on a young Facebook engineer who enlists the help of a Wall Street Journal reporter to expose the platform’s secrets.
Strong leads the cast as a much older Zuckerberg, complete with a memorable impression of the Meta CEO’s voice. Mikey Madison plays Facebook engineer and whistleblower Frances Haugen, while Jeremy Allen White takes on the role of WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz.
Where The Social Network was written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, The Social Reckoning takes a different form of creative control. The follow-up is both written and directed by Sorkin. Sorkin also earned an Oscar for the original film’s adapted screenplay.
The trailer’s release comes after it originally debuted at CinemaCon a few months ago. At the time. Sorkin told the crowd that “a while back. we told a story about a college kid who built a website in his dorm and connected the world. Well, as you might have noticed, a couple of things have changed since that dream exploded into a global corporation. It’s time to say more.”.
Sorkin has also described the new film as a “real David and Goliath story.”
The pieces line up around the same central tension: the original film turned a creator’s rise into a public spectacle, and now the story moves forward to focus on what comes after—when the secrets start pulling others into the fight.
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So this is about Facebook’s “secrets” again? Like didn’t we already know all of that lol.
Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg is gonna be weird, because he already looks like he’s about to start monologuing. Also 17 years later?? That seems kinda forced, but I guess people will go anyway.
Wait Frances Haugen is in this? I thought she worked for Twitter or something, like that’s what I heard. If it’s really WSJ + Facebook secrets though… seems like it’ll just be propaganda to me.
October 9th can’t come fast enough. I’m just hoping it doesn’t glorify Zuckerberg like the last one. Also Aaron Sorkin wrote/directed so you know it’ll be super dialogue heavy and everyone will talk like lawyers. Frances Haugen whistleblower thing sounds juicy but trailers always stretch the truth.