Decide up your Prada from the cleaners, slip in your flip flops and get wired in — as a result of a Social Community sequel is reportedly on its method.
Deadline reported on Wednesday, June 25, that after years of looking for an angle to develop his 2010 movie, Aaron Sorkin will write and direct The Social Community II for Sony Photos. Based on the outlet, the movie is not going to be a straight sequel however a observe as much as the unique story that detailed Mark Zuckerberg’s rise because the creator of Fb.
Sorkin, who wrote the unique screenplay, will reportedly take inspiration from The Fb Recordsdata for the sequel, a sequence of articles leaked in October 2021 and printed by the Wall Street Journal that detailed the inside workings and potential harms of the social media platform.
Per Deadline, no manufacturing date is about. It’s unknown if Jesse Eisenberg, who portrayed Zuckerberg within the fist movie, will reprise his position. Todd Black, Peter Rice, Stuart Besser and Sorkin are reportedly producers on the venture.
Us Weekly has reached out to Sony for remark.
Directed by David Fincher, The Social Community hit theaters in 2010 and adopted Zuckerberg at Harvard as he created the now-famous social networking web site. Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara and Andrew Garfield — who portrayed Zuckerberg’s cofounder Eduardo Saverin — additionally starred.
The biographical drama received Greatest Tailored Screenplay, Greatest Authentic Rating and Greatest Movie Enhancing on the 2011 Academy Awards. The movie’s eight Oscar nominations included Greatest Image and Greatest Actor for Eisenberg. It additionally took residence the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Greatest Movement Image — Drama, Greatest Director, Greatest Screenplay and Greatest Authentic Rating.
Sorkin has beforehand spoken about his want to put in writing a sequel through the years, and been open about his criticisms of the platform.
“There’s imagined to be a relentless stress at Fb between progress and integrity. There isn’t. There’s simply progress,” the West Wing creator mentioned throughout a 2024 episode of “The City” podcast. “If Mark Zuckerberg awakened tomorrow morning and realized there’s nothing you should buy for $120 billion you could’t purchase for $119 billion, ‘So how about if I make somewhat bit much less cash? I’ll tune up integrity and tune down progress.’ Sure, you are able to do that by switching a one to a zero.”
As for Zuckerberg, the tech big has referred to as the unique film “hurtful,” claiming that numerous points of the story have been “made up” for leisure functions.
“I feel the truth is that writing code and constructing a product after which constructing an organization truly just isn’t a glamorous sufficient factor to make a film about,” the billionaire claimed in a 2014 Fb Q&A Stay. “So you possibly can think about that plenty of the stuff they most likely needed to embellish and make up. In the event that they have been actually making a film, it could have been of me, sitting at a pc coding for 2 hours straight, which most likely would have simply not been that good of a film and these guys, I feel, wish to win awards and promote tickets.”
He continued,”They went out of their method within the film to attempt to get some attention-grabbing particulars right, just like the design of the workplace, however on the overarching plot, when it comes to why we’re constructing Fb to assist join the world, or how we did it, they only form of made up a bunch of stuff that I discovered form of hurtful. I take our mission actually critically, and we’re right here not primarily to simply construct an organization, however to assist join the world… The factor that I discovered essentially the most attention-grabbing in regards to the film, was that they form of made up this entire plot line about how I someway determined to create Fb to, I feel, entice women.”
Zuckerberg additionally has but to come back nose to nose with Sorkin, however did cross paths with Eisenberg again in 2011.
“To at the present time I haven’t met the author or plenty of the oldsters who made the film,” Zuckerberg confessed on the time. “I met the man who performed me within the film one time once I was on Saturday Night time Stay. I feel he was somewhat afraid to satisfy me after his portrayal, however I attempted to be good… I feel the true story is simply plenty of laborious work.”