The Social Network Sequel Confirmed, Focusing on Recent Facebook Controversies

The Social Network, the 2010 movie which told the communicative of however Facebook was founded, volition beryllium getting a sequel.

Oscar-winning writer Aaron Sorkin volition pen the publication and nonstop the follow-up, Deadline has reported, with a absorption connected Facebook's much caller controversies.

In particular, Sorkin is believed to beryllium focusing connected events discussed successful the Wall Street Journal's The Facebook Files, which published leaked documents that suggested the societal web was good alert of the societal harms its algorithms were propagating.

Sorkin has antecedently stated that helium believes Facebook contributed to the events of January 6, 2020, erstwhile rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol building, though Deadline sources person stressed this sequel volition not specifically beryllium a "January 6" movie. Instead, it volition besides screen the effects of societal media connected younger users, and those extracurricular the U.S.

While Sorkin appears to person a communicative acceptable out, the task inactive sounds early, with nary casting yet confirmed. Will Jesse Eisenberg instrumentality arsenic Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg? Sorkin has mulled a sequel for a while, and Eisenberg has antecedently expressed interest.

"Oh, yeah," Eisenberg told IndieWire successful 2019, erstwhile asked if helium would instrumentality to the relation successful a imaginable sequel. "To play a bully relation successful a fashionable happening is precise rare. This was an accidental to play a analyzable quality that you'd usually play onstage oregon an creation film, but connected a large scale. For me, that was incredibly fortunate."

Image credit: Monica Schipper/Getty Images

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social