(Left) Mikey Madison accepts the Oscar® for Actress in a Main Position throughout the reside ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit score/Supplier: Trae Patton / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Proper) Male Actor in a Comedy Collection, Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’ thirtieth Display screen Actors Guild Awards, Present, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA – 24 Feb 2024. Credit score: Photograph by Christopher Polk/Shutterstock for SAG.
Preview:
- Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison are the highest decisions for ‘The Social Community II”.
- Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing the follow-up.
- It’s not a direct sequel to the 2010 David Fincher Oscar winner, however continues specializing in Fb.
Round a month in the past, we discovered that, after twiddling with concepts for some time, Aaron Sorkin had give you a option to observe up 2010’s ‘The Social Community’, which received three Oscars, together with one for Sorkin’s screenplay, and chronicled the troublesome beginning of Fb.
Now, with the consequence widespread (and one of many key gamers in social media hurt), Sorkin is growing ‘The Social Community II’ –– not a direct sequel, however as a substitute one thing peeling again the layers of Fb and its mum or dad firm Meta.
“You aren’t getting to 500 million associates with out making a couple of enemies.”
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Based on Deadline, Sorkin and Sony are assured within the materials to start placing out feelers to actors, with white-hot names Jeremy Allen White (a a number of award winner for ‘The Bear’) and ‘Anora’ Oscar winner Mikey Madison on the high of the record.
No formal provides have been made to both actor, so watch this area to see in the event that they do bounce aboard.
The Hollywood Reporter has discovered that, assuming their offers shut, Madison can be Frances Haugen, the information engineer-turned-whistleblower who went to the Securities and Change Fee and the Wall Road Journal together with her data. White would play the previous WSJ tech reporter who leads the breaking of the Fb recordsdata.
And that is not all… Jeremy Robust can also be reportedly into consideration, and would possibly find yourself enjoying debated Fb creator (and present boss) Mark Zuckerberg this time round, changing Jesse Eisenberg.
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What was the story of ‘The Social Community’?
(L to R) Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg in ‘The Social Community’. Photograph: Sony Photos Releasing.
The 2010 authentic, which as talked about had David Fincher calling the pictures, seemed on the troublesome evolution of Fb from faculty rating system created –– once more, there’s debate because the film suggests –– by Zuckerberg, performed there by Eisenberg.
‘The Social Community’ charts Zuckerberg and his system’s rise to ubiquity and the individuals who ended up suing for his or her share of the earnings, together with the Winklevoss twins and outdated faculty pal Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield).
An enormous hit with audiences and critics, it earned $226 million on the world field workplace.
What has Aaron Sorkin stated a couple of ‘Social Community’ follow-up?
Jesse Eisenberg in ‘The Social Community’. Photograph: Sony Photos Releasing.
Speaking on a reside version of ‘The City’ Podcast, Sorkin introduced that his concern concerning how Fb’s system has poisoned politics on the private and nationwide stage led him to start out work on a brand new script, which whereas not a direct sequel to ‘The Social Community’, would observe up on the low-key fears that have been subtextual within the authentic.
Right here’s what Sorkin advised hosts Matthew Belloni and Peter Hamby:
“Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this. I blame Fb for January 6. Fb has been, amongst different issues, tuning its algorithm to advertise probably the most divisive materials attainable. As a result of that’s what will improve engagement. That’s what will get you to — what they name contained in the hallways of Fb — ‘the infinite scroll’ … There’s presupposed to be a relentless rigidity at Fb between progress and integrity. There isn’t. There’s simply progress. If Mark Zuckerberg wakened tomorrow morning and realized there’s nothing you should purchase for $120 billion that you would be able to’t purchase for $119 billion {dollars}, ‘So how about if I make a bit of bit much less cash? I’ll tune up integrity and tune down progress.’ Sure, you are able to do that by switching a one to a zero.”
Requested what precisely he’d be targeted on, he advised the viewers that they’d have to purchase a film ticket to search out that out.
We do know a bit of extra now, although: Sorkin’s screenplay for the brand new film explores the story behind the Wall Road Journal‘s ‘The Fb Recordsdata’, an explosive sequence of articles revealed in October 2021 that uncovered the inside workings of — and a number of harms attributable to — the world’s largest social community.
When will ‘The Social Community II’ be on screens?
Sony has but to verify a launch date for the brand new film.
Aaron Sorkin attends the Academy’s seventh Annual Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Middle® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Credit score/Supplier: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.