Remember Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps? No? Well, that’s the vibe we’re getting from Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, which is a sequel of sorts to — you guessed it — The Social Network. It’s missing one big component, though, and arguably it’s the most important one: Sorkin didn’t just write this one, he’s directing it as well. This is presumably because when faced with the choice between making a sequel about Mark Zuckerberg failing upwards and directing a new Tarantino script, he chose the latter. No one can blame him for that.
Anyhow, this has all the buzzy casting one would expect from a prestige project looking to capitalize on “young talent,” with Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporters breaking scoops about Zuck, played here by Jeremy Strong (and you have to wonder if he’s getting frustrated with getting typecast as a weasel post-Succession). What it doesn’t have is tungsten lighting, which is just what you get when you’ve got a filmmaker trying to make things look “real.” Or, well, a point, given that Careless People kind of made everyone forget about this particular Facebook scandal. Anyway, Sony dropped the teaser earlier on Wednesday, and you can watch it below.
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Here’s a synopsis for The Social Reckoning:
“A companion piece to the hit film ‘The Social Network,’ Sorkin’s original screenplay is based on the events that gave rise to the Wall Street Journal’s shocking exposé The Facebook Files. The film is inspired by the true story of 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.”
The Social Reckoning arrives in theaters on October 9. God help us all. Also, remember how good the trailers were for The Social Network? What happened?