Sony Pictures has made it official: Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to the social network is titled The Social Reckoning, which will open in US cinemas on October 9, 2026. Written and directed by Sorkin, the film is produced by Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser.
The locked cast – and who plays who
Jeremy Strong (inheritor, apprentice) portrays Mark Zuckerberg. Mikey Madison (Anola) plays whistleblower Frances Haugen, while Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) plays Wall Street Journal Reporter Jeff Horwitz, who is behind “The Facebook File.” Bill Barr will also star. (These castings were first reported in the summer and are now confirmed.)
The plot of the sequel
Described as a social network companion work, Social Recording focuses on events almost 20 years after Facebook was created. The film shows how Facebook engineer Haugen can help register Horwitz to reveal the company’s most closely guarded secrets. These stories detail the internal knowledge of harm that affects teenagers and the role of the platform in disseminating misinformation related to political violence. Production is scheduled to begin next month.
Release positioning
In the US, social calculations land on the four-day frame of Indigenous peoples. So far, so far, they’ve been set to face the other moms from Universal and Blumhouse (from director Rob Savage) and Paramount Animation’s “The Legend of the Ang: The Last Airbender.”
The legacy of the first film
Sony released David Fincher’s The Socile Network (2010) earned more than $226 million worldwide, earning eight Academy Award nominations and three. Its cast – Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Andrew Garfield and Army Hammer have gone on to a massive, big-screen career.
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Rather than trace the story beat of origin, Sorkin sequels aim to date an age of accountability, whistleblowing, internal documents, and platform aftershocks on a global scale. There is more to social calculation than a play of nostalgia, as strong, Madison, and white roles are directly linked to its real-world calculations. It is set as a test of what happens when the feed is bitten.
It’s also fascinating to see what Sorkin brings to the director this time. The cold accuracy of the social networks clearly feels like Fincher, which marks the fourth feature of Sorkin behind the camera after Molly’s match, the Chicago 7 trial, and Ricardo.
