Jeremy Strong stars as Zuckerberg in Facebook whistleblower film 'The Social Reckoning'
Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning,' a follow-up to 'The Social Network,' arrives October 9th. The film dramatizes Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's leaks and subsequent reports, showing the company's alleged prioritization of profit over safety, impacting teens and global events.
Key points
- Sony Pictures will release Aaron Sorkin's 'The Social Reckoning' on October 9th, a film focusing on Facebook's controversies.
- The movie stars Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg, Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen, and Jeremy Allen White as WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz.
- It dramatizes Haugen's leaks and the resulting 'Facebook Files' investigative reports from 2021.
- These reports revealed internal documents suggesting Facebook knew of harms like negative impacts on teen mental health and contributions to violence, yet chose profit.
- Sorkin, who wrote the original 'The Social Network,' described the new film as a 'David and Goliath story.'
Sony Pictures has unveiled the first trailer for "The Social Reckoning," a biographical drama from writer and director Aaron Sorkin, set to premiere in theaters on October 9th. The film serves as a companion piece to Sorkin's 2010 hit "The Social Network," delving into a later period of Facebook's controversial history.
The narrative centers on the actions of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook engineer who became a whistleblower. Haugen's leaks of internal documents in 2021 led to the "Facebook Files" investigative series. These reports exposed how the company allegedly knew about and failed to adequately address significant harms caused by its platforms, including negative impacts on teenage mental health from Instagram and its role in contributing to violence in developing nations. The film portrays Facebook's alleged prioritization of profit over user safety.
Jeremy Strong portrays a more mature Mark Zuckerberg, while Mikey Madison plays Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White is cast as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who broke the story. Sorkin, who won an Oscar for the screenplay of the original "The Social Network," has stated that "The Social Reckoning" aims to explore how "a couple of things have changed" since the company's early days, describing the new film as a "real David and Goliath story."
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