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Aaron Sorkin Tried to Get Jesse Eisenberg Back as Mark Zuckerberg for ‘Social Reckoning,’ but the Actor Doesn’t ‘Want to Be Conflated’ With the Facebook Founder Anymore

12 June 2026 at 19:26
Jeremy Strong’s take on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg officially debuted with the launch of the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” a follow-up to 2010’s “The Social Network.” Sorkin won an Oscar for his screenplay of the first movie and returns to write and replace David Fincher as the director of the new […]

Jesse Eisenberg Turned Down ‘The Social Reckoning’, Aaron Sorkin Says He Was Tired Of Being “Conflated” With Mark Zuckerberg

12 June 2026 at 21:47
While Aaron Sorkin is revisiting the godfather of Facebook, Jesse Eisenberg has moved on from playing Mark Zuckerberg after more than 15 years. Following their collaboration on The Social Network (2010), which recounted Zuckerberg’s creation of the social platform, Sorkin admitted he tried for three days to get Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated performance in […]

The Social Reckoning Sees Jeremy Strong Transform Into Mark Zuckerberg

11 June 2026 at 16:31
Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social ReckoningJeremy Strong has undergone a total transformation.In the first trailer for The Social Network sequel The Social Reckoning—which follows the whistleblowing events led by Frances Haugen (Mikey...

First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning

10 June 2026 at 13:48

Oscar winner Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong to star in film focused on fallout from whistleblower Frances Haugen

The first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Social Network has landed.

The Social Reckoning has been described as a film that isn’t a “straight sequel” but one that will still revisit Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.

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© Photograph: Leah Gallo

© Photograph: Leah Gallo

© Photograph: Leah Gallo

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