{"id":214617,"date":"2025-10-21T03:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:50:07","slug":"jeremy-strong-will-do-his-own-thing-in-the-social-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214617\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Strong will do his own thing in The Social Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Strong<\/a> (Succession) is set to take on the role of Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin\u2019s The Social Reckoning. He will be following in the footsteps of Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain), who played the role fifteen years ago in The Social Network.<\/p>\n

When an actor takes over a role played by another actor, they will occasionally touch base to compare notes, but it doesn\u2019t sound like Strong will be doing any of that. \u201cNo, I think that has nothing to do with what I\u2019m going to do,\u201d he told THR<\/a> at the Academy Museum Gala. To be fair, nearly two decades have passed between Eisenberg\u2019s younger version of the tech billionaire and Strong\u2019s more modern-day version. People can change a lot in that time.<\/p>\n

Strong did praise Sorkin\u2019s script for the follow-up. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the great scripts I\u2019ve ever read. It speaks to our time, it touches the third rail of everything happening in our world,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great character \u2014 fascinating, complex \u2014 and I\u2019m approaching it with great care and empathy and objectivity. I\u2019ve made two films with Aaron [with The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Molly\u2019s Game] and third time\u2019s the charm.\u201c<\/p>\n

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In addition to Strong, the cast includes Mikey Madison<\/a> (Anora) as whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White<\/a> (The Bear) as Jeff Horowitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote a series of articles that exposed the troubling revelations about Facebook\u2019s inner workings and global impact. Bill Burr<\/a> (The Mandalorian) and Wunmi Mosaku<\/a> (Sinners) will also appear in the movie.<\/p>\n

Sorkin, who wrote the original film, will write and direct The Social Reckoning. The official logline reads: \u201cA companion piece to the hit film, The Social Network, Sorkin\u2019s original screenplay tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network\u2019s most guarded secrets.\u201c<\/p>\n

Despite some initially dismissing the original film as \u201cthat Facebook movie,\u201d The Social Network ultimately became one of the best of its decade. Sorkin\u2019s brilliant script, David Fincher\u2019s fantastic direction, and a great cast all combined to form one hell of a movie. As for the follow-up, Sorkin still has the talent, but I\u2019ve yet to be impressed with his work as a director.<\/p>\n

The Social Reckoning will hit theaters on October 9, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Strong (Succession) is set to take on the role of Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin\u2019s The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,92335,92336,2839,21045,92337,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-214617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jeremy-strong","10":"tag-jesse-eisenberg","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-the-social-network","13":"tag-the-social-reckoning","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}