{"id":49504,"date":"2025-07-31T07:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49504\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:18:06","slug":"mikey-madison-jeremy-allen-white-circling-leads-in-social-network-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49504\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White Circling Leads in Social Network 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/mikey-madison\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mikey-madison\" data-tag=\"mikey-madison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikey Madison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jeremy-allen-white\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeremy-allen-white\" data-tag=\"jeremy-allen-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Allen White<\/a> are circling the lead roles for <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/the-social-network-2-aaron-sorkin-directing-1236440596\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Aaron Sorkin\u2019s sequel<\/a> to the 2010 Oscar winner \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-social-network\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-social-network\" data-tag=\"the-social-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Social Network<\/a>,\u201d according to sources with knowledge of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhile no offers have been made, Sorkin has met with both Madison and White about the project. The film is still very much in the development stage and has yet to receive the green light from Sony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSony declined to comment on the casting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSorkin is set to write and direct the follow-up to David Fincher\u2019s 2010 original. While that film followed the creation of the ubiquitous social media platform and the rise of its boy-genius founder Mark Zuckerberg, the sequel is based on \u201cThe Facebook Files\u201d from Jeff Horwitz. Published by the Wall Street Journal in 2021, the series of articles exposed Facebook for its harmful effects on teens and its knowing proliferation of misinformation, which contributed to acts of political violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTodd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser serve as producers for the sequel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe casting is buzzy as Madison is coming off her Oscar-winning turn in Sean Baker\u2019s indie darling \u201cAnora.\u201d She\u2019s next set to star alongside Kirsten Dunst in \u201cReptilia\u201d and has been reported to be in talks for A24\u2019s \u201cThe Masque of Death.\u201d Similarly, White, best known for his work on FX\u2019s culinary drama \u201cThe Bear,\u201d for which he has won two consecutive Emmys, will portray The Boss in the Bruce Springsteen biopic \u201cDeliver Me from Nowhere,\u201d out in theaters this fall. He\u2019ll also play a key role in \u201cStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,\u201d voicing Rotta the Hutt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJesse Eisenberg led \u201cThe Social Network\u201d as the Facebook mastermind, starring opposite Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake and Armie Hammer. Whether Eisenberg will reprise his role as Zuckerberg in the sequel is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Social Network\u201d garnered eight Academy Award nominations and took home honors for best adapted screenplay, best editing and best original score. The film grossed $226 million at the global box office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAngelique Jackson contributed to this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White are circling the lead roles for Aaron Sorkin\u2019s sequel to the 2010&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38131,88,38132,38133,38379],"class_list":{"0":"post-49504","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49504","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=49504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}