I get it, nodding is one of the more difficult human mannerisms to master, but Jeremy Strong’s Mark Zuckerberg gives it his best. Sony Pictures has dropped the new trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s upcoming companion piece to The Social Network. It’s been 16 years since the release of the first movie, and in that time, Facebook has changed drastically, becoming so much more than a simple social media platform. Check out the trailer above!
The Social Reckoning
Sorkin, who wrote the original film, returned to write and direct The Social Reckoning. The film stars Mikey Madison (Anora) as whistleblower Frances Haugen; Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) as Jeff Horowitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote a series of articles exposing troubling revelations about Facebook’s inner workings and global impact; and Jeremy Strong (Succession) as Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO.
The official logline reads: “A companion piece to the hit film, The Social Network, Sorkin’s original screenplay tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.“
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) and Bill Burr (The Mandalorian) will also appear in the movie.
The Social Reckoning will hit theaters on October 9. It looks promising, but I do wonder how it will stack up against the original film, particularly since this one is missing a key ingredient: David Fincher.
Where’s Jesse Eisenberg?
Jesse Eisenberg played Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (and scored an Oscar nomination for his performance), but he didn’t return for The Social Reckoning.
During an appearance on The Today show, Eisenberg was asked why he won’t be back. “Listen, for reasons that have nothing to do with how amazing that movie will be, really, truthfully,” Eisenberg said. “But when you play a character, you feel, at some point, you’ve grown into something else.“
When asked if he had outgrown the character, Eisenberg said, “Yeah, something. But it’s a really wonderful movie. I’m friends with Aaron Sorkin who wrote and is directing this movie, and all of the reasons that I am not in it are completely unrelated to how brilliant it will be.“
Although it is difficult to put Eisenberg’s performance out of our minds, Sorkin is confident that Strong’s portrayal will be just as powerful, particularly because this Zuckerberg is in a very different position from the one in the original movie. “He didn’t feel like he was stepping into Jesse’s shoes,” Sorkin told Empire. “He felt, as I did, that it’s not the same character. I think that a few minutes into Jeremy’s performance, people are going to forget about anything else.“
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