The Social Reckoning Teaser
We have our first look at Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning. Check out the trailer above.
Described as a “companion piece to The Social Network,” this new film is based on the events that sparked the Wall Street Journal’s exposé The Facebook Files.
The official synopsis reads: The film 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.
The Social Reckoning arrives roughly 16 years after David Fincher’s The Social Network and releases via Columbia Pictures on October 9. Sorkin directed from his own script.
The film’s cast features Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr, and Jeremy Strong. Sorkin produced alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.
The exec producers are Lauren Lohman, Roger McNamee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Broderick Johnson, and Andrew A. Kosove.
In the trailer, we see Madison’s character meet with a reporter, played by White, and she tells him she wants to “help Facebook, not hurt it,” which leaves White to wonder why she reached out to him.
We then go to court and get a first look at Strong as Mark Zuckerberg — taking over a role made iconic by Jesse Eisenberg. He seems remorseless amid reports of Facebook’s “unprecedented” impacts on society — impacts not necessarily for the better — calling himself a “free speech absolutist” and “not the one who’s lying.”
Check out the trailer above.