The sequel to “Social Network” focuses on Haugen Leaks, while Jeremy Strong becomes stronger as Mark Zuckerberg

Fifteen years after “Social Network,” Aaron Sorkin writes and directs a sequel film called “The Social Reckoning,” which will be released on October 9, 2026.

Rather than recreating his breakout role as Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg is replaced by a more salou, a more serious Jeremy Strong.

Best known for playing Kendall Roy in “Inheritance,” Strong is known for his way of thinking, which is the technique in which the actor tries to immerse himself in the character’s mental and emotional states.

The film won’t be featured directly in places where the “social networks” that recorded the rise of Facebook was interrupted. Instead, the story centers around Frances Haugen (played by Mikey Madison), a Facebook employee who leaked a massive trobe of internal documents to the Wall Street Journal Reporter (played by Jeremy Allen White) and accused him of prioritizing “profit over people.”

Among the worst revelations from Haugen’s leaks was internal research showing that Instagram was well aware that it was harming the mental health of teenage girls. In his parliamentary testimony, Haugen said that Facebook “literally incites ethnic violence” in Ethiopia. Her leaked documents also revealed that although English speakers constitute only 9% of users, 87% of meta spending on reducing misinformation was directed towards English content.

Zuckerberg and Facebook were rebranded to Meta shortly after Haugen’s leak, but have always been ranked in how “social networks” portray the company’s origins. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg revealed in an interview that he once saw the film as part of an outing with other Facebook employees.

“It was strange, man,” he said. “They got all these very specific details of what I was wearing, or these specifics are correct, but then my motivation and all of these things were completely wrong.”