Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network
The Social Network is finally getting a sequel courtesy of Sony.
Deadline reports that Sony is moving forward with The Social Network Part II, a 'follow-up' to David Fincher's 2010 feature about how TheFacebook went on to become one of the most singularly influential websites in internet history and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire in the process. Though Fincher is not attached to the new movie, Aaron Sorkin — who wrote the first — is coming back to write and direct Part II. No production timelines or casting announcements have been made, but Sorkin will produce the project alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.
While much of The Social Network was based on Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Part II will draw inspiration from The Facebook Files, The Wall Street Journal's article series that explored the myriad societal harms Facebook has caused over the years. Last year, Sorkin teased that he'd been contemplating a sequel to The Social Network that might dig into the way Facebook helped foment the rage that culminated in an attempted coup on January 6th, 2021.
It sounds like that idea has evolved a full-blown picture that Sony wants to make, and given how much more of a juggernaut Facebook has become in recent years, Sorkin's decision to go a bigger with Part II is probably a good move.
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