{"id":50615,"date":"2025-07-31T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50615\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:16:08","slug":"will-jeremy-strong-play-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50615\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Jeremy Strong Play Mark Zuckerberg?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAdd Jeremy Strong<\/a> to the list of bold-faced names circling Aaron Sorkin\u2019s The Social Network<\/a> Part II.<\/p>\n

\n\tSorkin, who won an Academy Award for penning the 2010 original movie, wrote the script and will direct the Sony drama that is inspired by a series of articles Jeff Horwitz wrote for\u00a0The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0known as The Facebook Files.<\/p>\n

\n\tStrong joins Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White<\/a> as the select few master thespians who have been meeting with Sorkin as he packages a cast and budget that he will then show to the studio for final approval.<\/p>\n

\n\tInsiders stress that no offers have been made and that the film is still in the development process, although the project is a top priority for the studio and moving fast.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the acclaimed 2010 drama focused on the making of the Facebook, now known as Meta, the story of the new feature will focus on how the company\u2019s own reporting pointed to the negative effects the company\u2019s social media was having on teens and kids, how it knew misinformation was proliferating and causing violence, and how it contributed to the coup attempt of Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf offers and, indeed, dealmaking closes, Madison would play Frances Haugen, the data engineer-turned-whistleblower who went to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0with her information. White would play the former\u00a0WSJ\u00a0tech reporter who leads the breaking of the Facebook files.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe big question is who could Strong be playing. Sources say there is a role for a WSJ editor, but the other option is a doozy: Facebook\/Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne source said that Jesse Eisenberg, who earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Zuckerberg has passed, at least at this time, on reprising the part. Whether that is a negotiating tactic or not remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\n\tSony had no comment. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSorkin, Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser are producing the sequel.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne source said the project would have shades of\u00a0The Insider, the 1999 movie from Michael Mann that told of a whistleblower blowing the lid off the tobacco industry by talking to\u00a060 Minutes. Another source offered comparisons to\u00a0Spotlight, the 2015 movie that centered on reporters from the\u00a0Boston Globe\u00a0investigating child sex abuse by the city\u2019s Roman Catholic\u00a0clergy.<\/p>\n

\n\tA winner of Tony and Emmy awards, Strong may be best known for his work on HBO\u2019s critical darling Succession, where he played the eldest son of Logan Roy, the patriarch of the Murdoch-like family played by Brian Cox. He previously worked with Sorkin on Netflix\u2019s The Trial of the Chicago 7 in which he played anti-war leader Jerry Rubin.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Strong portrayed as Donald Trump mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, a performance that netted him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add Jeremy Strong to the list of bold-faced names circling Aaron Sorkin\u2019s The Social Network Part II. Sorkin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,39033,38379],"class_list":{"0":"post-50615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jeremy-strong","10":"tag-the-social-network"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50615","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=50615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}