Comedian Bill Burr is in talks to join the cast of Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Network Part II” at Sony Pictures.
Sorkin wrote the script and will direct the drama that is inspired by a series of articles Jeff Horwitz wrote for The Wall Street Journal known as The Facebook Files.
It was tied to the company’s own reports on the negative effects its social media was having on teens and kids, how it knew misinformation was proliferating and causing violence, and how it contributed to the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Sorkin has been assembling a major list of talent so far with Jeremy Allen White, Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong in the process of wrapping up their deals.
White, Madison and Strong are playing Horwitz, Madison will portray whistleblower Frances Haugen, and Strong is playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Burr is said to be playing a fictional character that an amalgamation of several people.
Production is due to start later this year in Vancouver. Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser are producing.
Source: THR
