{"id":49116,"date":"2025-07-31T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49116\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:23:07","slug":"social-network-2-eyes-mikey-madison-jeremy-allen-white-to-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49116\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Social Network 2’ Eyes Mikey Madison & Jeremy Allen White To Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Following the news a Social Network sequel may finally be moving forward<\/a>, Aaron Sorkin<\/a> may already his sights set on the two rising stars to lead this next installment to his Oscar-winning classic. While various things are still being worked out, including a budget, sources say Sorkin\u2019s top choices to star in The Social Network Part II<\/a> are Oscar-winner Mikey Madison<\/a> and Emmy-winner Jeremy Allen White<\/a>. Insiders stress no formal offers have been given to either actor but it\u2019s clear these are his picks to star in the film once those hurdles are overcome.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony Pictures, who is distributing the film, had no comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline first reported in June that Sorkin would direct and pen the sequel after years of figuring out what angle he wanted to pursue for this next chapter in telling the Facebook story. The new film project is in development with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is not a straight sequel but rather a follow-up to the original 2010 movie that explored the origins of what would become the world\u2019s biggest social media platform.<\/p>\n

\n\tSorkin\u2019s original\u00a0screenplay for the new movie explores the story behind the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u2018s\u00a0The Facebook Files<\/a>\u00a0by Jeff Horowitz, an explosive series of articles published in October 2021 that exposed\u00a0the inner workings of \u2014 and multiple harms caused by \u2014 the world\u2019s largest social network. Ideally, White would play Horowitz and Madison would play the whistleblower behind the series of articles.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the announcement of this sequel moving forward, talent across town have been doing everything they can to get a meeting with Sorkin, given what the original film did for its star-studded ensemble. As for the man who would play Mark Zuckerberg, it\u2019s still unknown how big of a role the CEO of Meta would have in the film, as well if Jessie Eisenberg would return to play the part. Eisenberg earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in the first film but sources still say it\u2019s unclear where things stand with his return.<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased in 2010 by Sony Pictures and based on the Ben Mezrich\u2019s\u00a0The Accidental Millionaires,\u00a0The Social Network\u00a0was a huge hit with audiences and critics and earned $226 million at the global box office. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, the film won three, including Sorkin for Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince its release, Sorkin has noted on several occasions his interest in doing a follow-up, but he couldn\u2019t find the right angle. Following the events of January 6, 2021, when the U.S. Capitol was attacked, Sorkin found new inspiration, saying in an interview last year that he believed Facebook played a part. Sources stress that the new film isn\u2019t a \u201cJanuary 6\u201d movie and will focus not just on the 2020 election but also Facebook\u2019s effect on teens, preteens, violence and countries outside the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor Madison, this would mark her first major studio role since she won an Oscar for her star-making role in the Neon pic Anora. White also has his sights set on a potential gold trophy this fall as he is poised to play rock legend Bruce Springsteen in the 20th Century biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe will let you know more as this unfolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Following the news a Social Network sequel may finally be moving forward, Aaron Sorkin may already his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38131,88,38132,38133,38134],"class_list":{"0":"post-49116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aaron-sorkin","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jeremy-allen-white","11":"tag-mikey-madison","12":"tag-the-social-network-part-ii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}