A teaser for Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel The Social Reckoning. gives us a first look at Jeremy Strong as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with his misshapen Caesar hair cut and scary demeanour.
Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg vs the real Mark Zuckerberg testifying to Congress in 2018.
Here is the Succession actor meeting fans in Vancouver where The Social Reckoning was filmed.
What is The Social Reckoning about?
The Social Reckoning is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.
Oscar winner Mikey Madison is the Facebook Files whistleblower and The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White is the Wall Street Journal investigative reporter.
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Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar for writing the script to the 2010 feature The Social Network — which told the story of how Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg founded the social media giant Facebook — wrote the script for The Social Reckoning and directed the film..
The sequel is inspired by The Facebook Files, the explosive Wall Street Journal investigative series by Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) that revealed how Facebook, under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) and COO Sheryl Sandberg, prioritized profit and growth over user safety.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) provided the internal documents that exposed troubling practices. These included Facebook’s awareness that Instagram harmed teen girls’ mental health, the existence of “XCheck,” a system that shielded VIP users—including politicians and celebrities— from enforcement, and the platform’s role in fueling misinformation and violence globally.
The Social Reckoning:
Working title: GOLIATH.
Vancouver filming dates: October 20 2025 – December 09 2025.
Writer/Director: Aaron Sorkin.
Cast: Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen, Betty Gilpin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Anna Lambe
Producers: Peter Rice Productions, Sony Pictures.
Filming in Vancouver:
Jeremy Allen White filming a scene at Sunset Beach in Vancouver.
NewWestBoy/@CaptCanuck66 image.
Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison on Sunset Beach for a different scene.
Turning the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery into the January 6th 2021 attack by Trump supporters on the United States Capitol in Washington D.C.
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What the actual attack looked like:
A mob of backgrounders stormed the Vancouver Art Gallery steps again and again (after covering the ironic lion in a stone-like box)
The Social Reckoning is set for an October 9th, 2026 release in theatres.