Sony has supplied a primary take a look at The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin‘s companion piece to his Oscar-winning drama The Social Network that stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong.
Whereas The Social Network was a drama trying on the origins of Facebook and the authorized battles that adopted, adapting Ben Mezrich’s guide The Accidental Billionaires, The Social Reckoning is extra of a thriller. Based on the occasions that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s surprising 2021 exposé “The Facebook Files,” this movie tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a younger Facebook engineer, enlisted the assistance of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a harmful journey that ended up blowing the whistle on the social community’s most guarded secrets and techniques.
For the room at Sony’s CinemaCon presentation solely, a trailer confirmed tonight noticed Madison’s whistleblower Frances meet with White’s reporter and guarantee him she desires to “help Facebook, not hurt it,” which leaves White to surprise why she reached out to him.
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We then go to court docket and get a primary take a look at Succession‘s Armstrong as Mark Zuckerberg — taking on a job made iconic by Jesse Eisenberg. This Zuckerberg is combative — calling himself a “professional defendant.”
He appears remorseless amid stories of Facebook’s “unprecedented” impacts on society — impacts not essentially for the higher — calling himself a “free speech absolutist” and “not the one who’s lying.”
Various characters we see then warn of the results of talking out towards Facebook, with one saying “the mafia” can be a greater enemy to make.
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The Social Reckoning arrives roughly 16 years after David Fincher’s The Social Network and releases by way of Columbia Pictures on October 9. Sorkin directed from his personal script this time round.
Others within the solid embody Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, and Bill Burr. Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser produced, with Lauren Lohman, Roger McNamee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Broderick Johnson, and Andrew A. Kosove exec producing.
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