The excellent The social network (2010), which dramatized the founding of Facebook, is getting a “companion piece” this October: The social reckoning. This time, it will depict the events surrounding the release of the “Facebook Papers” — internal documents leaked to the press in 2021 by Frances Haugen, a former Meta (then still Facebook) engineer. The first trailer shows Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, which I think is a strong casting choice: the voice is uncannily close, and Strong in character comes across as just as odd as the real person who inspired the role. (In the first film, Zuckerberg was played by Jesse Eisenberg.) Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay solo and is also directing. It’s a shame David Fincher didn’t come back to helm the sequel — sorry, the “companion film.” The trailer didn’t give me enough confidence that we’re in for something on par with the original.
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