Sony Pictures has premiered the official teaser trailer for “The Social Reckoning,” a companion piece to David Fincher’s Oscar-winning 2010 drama “The Social Network”.
Both films were penned by “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin who also takes over from Fincher in the director’s chair this time.
The true story follows how Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), 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.
Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen and Wunmi Mosaku co-star in the film, with Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. The film is said to be inspired by a series of articles Horwitz wrote called ‘The Facebook Files’.
Those articles looked at 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.
Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser are producing the film, which opens October 9th.
