Jeremy Strong’s look at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg officially debuted with the release of the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s “Social Reckoning,” the sequel to 2010’s “The Social Network.” Sorkin won an Oscar for his screenplay for the first film and returned as director, replacing David Fincher in the new film. He recently told Vanity Fair that he spent three days trying to get Jesse Eisenberg back to Zuckerberg.
“It felt like it belonged to him, and he was definitely someone who had been through the gauntlet,” Sorkin says of initially wanting Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated role. “He just didn’t want to be confused any more with Mark Zuckerberg. He has a problem with this guy. He didn’t like kids coming up to him at the airport with business cards that said ‘I’m CEO, bitch’ and asking for his autograph.”
According to Vanity Fair, “Coincidentally, the first time Sorkin told Eisenberg that he had a script he wanted him to read was at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar party. Just a few minutes later, at the same party, he ran into Jeremy Strong, who asked Sorkin what he was doing, and Sorkin told him about the script. Strong suggested that if Eisenberg wasn’t interested, he might be.”
Mr Eisenberg said as much himself in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today last year. The actor said he hasn’t kept up with Zuckerberg’s life because “I don’t want to think of myself being associated with someone like that.”
“It’s not like I played a great golfer or anything, and now people think I’m a great golfer,” he explained. “It’s people like this guy who are doing problematic things that take away fact-checking and safety concerns and further threaten people who are already threatened in this world.”
“The Social Reckoning” centers on Facebook engineer Francis Haugen (Mikey Madison) and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), whose reporting uncovers the company’s internal investigations and decision-making. A series of 2021 studies revealed Facebook’s negative influence on teens and its role in spreading misinformation, including content related to political violence.
