{"id":170812,"date":"2025-09-26T14:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:48:07","slug":"bill-burr-is-in-talks-to-join-the-social-network-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170812\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Burr is in talks to join The Social Network 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having previously proven that fast-talking, acerbic Massholes can exist in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/lines-get-blurred-as-the-mandalorian-goes-deep-undercov-1845863345\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/a-very-special-breaking-bad-pulled-a-train-robbery-and-1800665810\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world of New Mexico semi-organized crime<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/jerry-seinfeld-s-cereal-comedy-unfrosted-is-just-a-li-1851452554\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the top of the Kennedy White House<\/a>, Bill Burr is now set to demonstrate that they can hang on the internet, too.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/the-social-network-2-bill-burr-cast-1236385660\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">THR\u00a0reports<\/a> that the stand-up comic is in talks to appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/aaron-sorkin-writing-directing-the-social-network-part-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sorkin\u2019s self-directed sequel to\u00a0The Social Network<\/a>, where, if we had to guess, he will either call someone, or be called, a jagoff at some point during the events of the film.<\/p>\n<p>None of the casting for Sorkin\u2019s movie\u2014which will see him taking over directing duties from the original film\u2019s David Fincher\u2014has been solidified, although Burr might end up joining a cast that includes Jeremy Allen White (as a\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0writer), Mikey Madison (as a whistleblower) and Jeremy Strong (reportedly in talks to play Mark Zuckerberg himself). While all those roles are based on real people, Burr will apparently be playing some kind of amalgamation of real-world figures\u2014which, given that Sorkin is reportedly aiming at least parts of his film at the way Facebook ended up interacting with the January 6 Capitol Building riots, really feels like it could encompass a lot of possibilities in terms of characters matching the, let\u2019s call it, \u201cBill Burr type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burr has appeared in a few acting projects in recent years\u2014including the aforementioned stint as JFK in Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s\u00a0Unfrosted\u2014but has mostly been working as a stand-up. (Is he on the bill for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/marc-maron-riyadh-comedy-festival-shane-gillis-tim-dillon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the controversial, reportedly very lucrative Riyadh Comedy Festival?<\/a> Sure is!) He also recently made the move to Broadway, appearing opposite Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in a production of Glengarry Glen Ross, and will be directing and starring in his own film,\u00a0Born Losers. Bill Burr: Busy!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-social-network-ii-mikey-madison-jeremy-allen-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Strong, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White reportedly in the mix for The Social Network Part II [UPDATED]<\/a><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/aaron-sorkin-writing-directing-the-social-network-part-ii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sorkin to write\u2014and, uh, direct\u2014The Social Network Part II<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having previously proven that fast-talking, acerbic Massholes can exist in space, the world of New Mexico semi-organized crime,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-170812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}