It’s almost time for a popcorn bucket of Mark Zuckerberg’s head. Yesterday, Sony released the trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to the 2010 Oscar winner The Social Network (which he wrote). It jumps 17 years ahead of the prior movie, leaving Facebook’s beginnings behind to explore one of its reputational tipping points.

Based on true events, the new film follows an established Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) and a former Facebook engineer Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) as she leaks internal documents to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White). Spoiler alert:

• With Haugen’s help, the WSJ reported in October 2021 that Facebook and Instagram knowingly harmed teen mental health and contributed to the spread of hate speech, among other adverse effects.
• Much of the film’s dialogue is likely dramatized, but one key line in the trailer is from Haugen’s actual Senate testimony: “Senior leadership knows, and is doing nothing,” she said.

Why do a sequel now? “There isn’t a life that Facebook’s algorithm hasn’t touched, and that influence has shaped everything,” Sorkin said at the trailer’s CinemaCon premiere in April. “So it’s time to say more.”

The new film—which Strong said he prepared for by watching “everything [Zuckerberg’s] ever said and done”—comes out on Oct. 9.

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