A first trailer for The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's companion piece to David Fincher's The Social Network, has just been released, giving fans a glimpse of Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Succession's Jeremy Strong as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The Anora star plays Frances Haugen, a former Facebook data engineer who in 2021 leaked internal documents to The Wall Street Journal after becoming disillusioned with the company and what she saw as its negative impact on youth and role in spreading violence and misinformation.
The Bear's Jeremy Allen White stars as reporter Jeff Horwitz, with the starry cast rounded out by Wunmi Mosaku, Bill Burr, Billy Magnussen, and Betty Gilpin, among others.
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The tense trailer sees Madison's Haugen approach Horwitz with the goal of building a better Facebook, though the whistleblower is faced with multiple hurdles along her path.
"I'm a free speech absolutist," Strong's Zuckerberg says in the trailer, as he jokingly describes himself as "a professional defendant".
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The Social Reckoning is a follow-up to Fincher's 2010 acclaimed, Oscar-winning movie, The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg.
Penned by Sorkin, the film looks back on the founding of Facebook by Zuckerberg and co-founder Eduardo Saverin, played by Andrew Garfield. Also starring are Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Rooney Mara as Erica Albright, Rashida Jones as Marilyn Delpy, Brenda Song as Christy Lee, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra.
An adaptation of the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film received eight nominations at the Academy Awards, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Film Editing.
The Social Reckoning is released in cinemas on 9 October.
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