Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up Facebook film has set a 2026 release date.

The Social Network sequel gets a title and a new Mark Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin's follow-up Facebook film has set a 2026 release date.

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September 26, 2025 2:27 p.m. ET

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Jeremy Strong; Mark Zuckerberg. Credit:

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The sequel to *The Social Network* has officially hired its Mark Zuckerberg — and it's not Jesse Eisenberg.

Sony announced Friday that *Succession* star Jeremy Strong will play the Facebook CEO in Aaron Sorkin's "companion piece" to his 2010 Facebook drama, which has officially been titled *The Social Reckoning*.

The film will also star Oscar winner Mikey Madison (*Anora*) as Frances Haugen, a young Facebook employee who helped blow the whistle on some of the company's most closely held secrets.

Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Bill Burr.

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Meanwhile, *The Bear* star Jeremy Allen White, who costars with Strong in the upcoming *Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere*, will play Jeff Horwitz, the *Wall Street Journal* reporter who assisted Haugen in her endeavor and ultimately published "The Facebook Files" in 2021.

Horowitz's piece revealed that Facebook — which changed its corporate name to Meta the month after the article's publication — was aware of its platform's negative impact on teenagers, its connection to violence in developing countries, and its algorithms' intentional promotion of anger-inducing content.

Bill Burr is also on board for the drama in an undisclosed role.

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Sorkin, who won an Oscar for his *Social Network* script, is writing and directing *The Social Reckoning*. David Fincher, who helmed the first film, is not involved in the project at this point.

*The Social Network* charted Facebook's origins at Harvard, highlighting the fractured friendship between co-founders Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield). The film also starred Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker and Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins. None of the original cast members have been announced as part of the sequel.

*The Social Network* also won Oscars for Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter's editing as well as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' original score. The film received additional nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Eisenberg), Best Cinematography, and Best Sound Mixing.

Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong in 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'.

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*The Social Reckoning* is slated to hit theaters Oct. 9, 2026. If other studios' release schedules hold, the movie will go up against Paramount's *The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender*, the animated sequel film to *Avatar: The Last Airbender*, and Universal's *Other Mommy*, a James Wan-produced horror film starring Jessica Chastain.

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