Aaron Sorkin to put in writing and direct “The Social Community Half II”, impressed by “WSJ”’s Fb investigation

Aaron Sorkin is logging again in to Fb.

Fourteen years after profitable an Oscar for The Social Network, Sorkin is about to put in writing and direct a follow-up movie catching up with Mark Zuckerberg's tech behemoth, Leisure Weekly has confirmed.

The Social Community Half II is about up at Sony Photos and can draw inspiration from the Wall Road Journal's 2021 investigation "The Fb Recordsdata," which alleged, primarily based on inside paperwork and worker discussions, that the corporate had lengthy identified there have been issues with its platforms that inflicted real-world hurt however had executed nothing to right them.

Deadline Hollywood first reported the sequel information.

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Launched in 2010, the unique Social Community relies on Ben Mezrich's guide The Unintended Billionaires, chronicling Fb's creation at Harvard College and the following authorized battle between Zuckerberg and co-founder Eduardo Saverin. The solid consists of Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

The movie was nominated for eight Oscars, together with Greatest Image, and gained three: Greatest Tailored Screenplay for Sorkin, plus Greatest Authentic Rating and Greatest Movie Enhancing.

Sorkin, whose different display screen credit embrace The West Wing, A Few Good Males, and Steve Jobs, has beforehand expressed curiosity in a venture addressing what's gone on with Fb within the years since.

On an episode of The City podcast final 12 months, Sorkin mentioned he holds the corporate answerable for a lot of the divisiveness that pervades the trendy world. "I blame Fb for Jan. 6," Sorkin mentioned.

He added, "Fb has been, amongst different issues, tuning its algorithm to advertise probably the most divisive materials potential. As a result of that’s what will enhance engagement. That’s what will get you to — what they name contained in the hallways of Fb — 'the infinite scroll' … There's purported to be a continuing pressure at Fb between progress and integrity. There isn't. It's simply progress."

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Whereas Oscar-nominated director David Fincher is not going to be again to helm The Social Community Half II, Eisenberg has mentioned prior to now that he'd prefer to painting Zuckerberg once more.

"Oh, yeah," Eisenberg mentioned of a possible sequel in a 2019 interview with IndieWire. "To play an excellent function in a preferred factor may be very uncommon. This was a possibility to play an advanced character that you simply'd usually play onstage or an artwork movie, however on a giant scale. For me, that was extremely lucky."

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