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Sony has offered a first look astatine The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin‘s companion portion to his Oscar-winning play The Social Network, which stars Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White.
Whereas Social Network looked astatine nan origins of Facebook and nan ineligible battles that followed, adapting Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires, The Social Reckoning tells nan existent communicative of really Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlisted nan thief of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to spell connected a vulnerable travel that ended up blowing nan whistle connected nan societal network’s astir guarded secrets.
For nan room astatine Sony’s CinemaCon position only, a trailer showed coming saw Madison’s whistleblower Frances meet pinch White’s newsman and guarantee him she wants to “help Facebook, not wounded it,” which leaves White to wonderment why she reached retired to him.
We past spell to tribunal and get a first look astatine Jeremy Armstrong arsenic Mark Zuckerberg — taking complete a domiciled made iconic by Jesse Eisenberg. This Zuckerberg is combative — calling himself a “professional defendant.”
He seems remorseless amid reports of Facebook’s “unprecedented” impacts connected nine — impacts not needfully for nan amended — calling himself a “free reside absolutist” and “not nan 1 who’s lying.”
Various characters we spot past pass of nan consequences of speaking retired against Facebook, pinch onw saying “the mafia” would beryllium a amended force to make.
Based connected nan events that gave emergence to nan Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files, The Social Reckonine arrives astir 16 years aft David Fincher’s The Social Network and releases via Columbia Pictures connected October 9. Sorkin directed from his ain book this clip around.
Others successful nan formed see Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, and Bill Burr. Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser produced, pinch Lauren Lohman, Roger McNamee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Broderick Johnson, and Andrew A. Kosove exec producing.
