‘The Social Reckoning’ features Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg

Aaron Sorkin is returning to Facebook. Sixteen years after his Oscar-winning screenplay for "The Social Network" dissected the messy origins of the world's biggest social media platform, Sorkin will release a follow-up — "The Social Reckoning" — on October 9, 2026, Sony Pictures announced Friday.

The film stars Jeremy Strong ("Succession") as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, alongside Mikey Madison ("Anora"), Jeremy Allen White ("The Bear"), and Bill Burr ("Old Dads"). Production begins next month, with Sorkin once again writing, directing, and producing, alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.

Billed as a companion piece rather than a sequel, "The Social Reckoning" shifts nearly two decades beyond Zuckerberg's college dorm room. The story follows Frances Haugen (played by Madison), the former Facebook engineer who leaked thousands of internal documents in 2021, and reporter Jeff Horwitz (White), whose Wall Street Journal series "The Facebook Files" exposed how the company amplified misinformation and worsened mental health risks among teenagers.

Those revelations — including Facebook's role in political unrest — form the basis of Sorkin's latest drama, which casts whistleblowing as both a personal gamble and a global reckoning with technology's unchecked power.

Back in 2010, "The Social Network" grossed $226 million worldwide and scored eight Oscar nominations, winning three, including best adapted screenplay for Sorkin. Whether "The Social Reckoning" can match that cultural bite remains to be seen, but the timing is pointed: Silicon Valley is once again under fire, and Sorkin seems determined to finish the story he started.