Last month, Aaron Sorkin and Sony Pictures officially set into motion a sequel to The Social Network. The groundbreaking 2010 film, directed by David Fincher, chronicled the rise of Facebook and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg. It earned eight Academy Award nominations and won three. In short, a sequel has big shoes to fill, and Sorkin is aiming high with the casting to ensure that it does.
According to THR, Sorkin is eyeing The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White and Oscar-winning Anora star Mikey Madison to star in The Social Network Part II. If deals are inked, Madison will play Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed thousands of Facebook’s internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission. White would take the role of Jeff Horwitz, the former Wall Street Journal reporter whose writing inspired Sorkin’s sequel.
The film won’t be a direct follow-up to The Social Network, but will instead examine Facebook’s (now Meta) impact on January 6th, teens, preteens, and other countries. Sources say Sorkin’s vision resembles other whistleblower/journalism films as The Insider and Spotlight. Pretty good company to keep.
Madison has been picky about her upcoming projects since Anora’s tremendous success. She’s attached to star in the Florida thriller Reptilia alongside Kirsten Dunst, and the Poe horror adaptation The Masque of the Red Death.
White, having recently completed season four of The Bear, will be seen this October in the Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. He also has a role in The Mandalorian & Grogu, and the crime film Enemies.
