Sorkin Expands The Social Network With Disclosure Day Trailer — Disclosure Day Trailer
Aaron Sorkin used his first disclosure day trailer interview about The Social Reckoning to put the film in direct line with The Social Network: one was about Facebook’s invention, the new one is about what it became. He said he spent about a year and a half on Facebook while researching the project, only to end up with an algorithm full of dachshund pictures.
“The Social Network was about how Facebook was invented, and The Social Reckoning is what it’s become,” Sorkin said. He called the new film his first directorial follow-up to the 2010 movie, which earned eight Oscar nominations and won three Oscars.
Sorkin’s Facebook research
About a year and a half of using Facebook gave Sorkin a strange kind of sourcing window into the platform he is now filming. “I’m not sure why,” he said of the dachshund-heavy feed, a small comic detail inside a much larger project about a company’s internal decisions and public fallout.
2010 is the last time Sorkin and this material were this closely linked on screen. He wrote The Social Network and won his first Oscar for it, then returned to directing in 2017 with Molly’s Game, making The Social Reckoning his first directorial follow-up to the Facebook story he once said he would only revisit if David Fincher came back.
Frances Haugen and Facebook Files
Frances Haugen sits at the center of the new film because her case changes the frame from origin story to whistleblower account. She filed complaints with the Securities and Exchange Commission and disclosed tens of thousands of internal documents to The, where the investigation known as The Facebook Files laid out what Facebook knew about harmful societal effects from its platforms and how little action followed.
Mikey Madison plays Haugen, Jeremy Allen White plays Jeff Horwitz, and Jeremy Strong plays Mark Zuckerberg. Madison called Haugen “a truly brave hero” and said, “She is someone who risked everything for the greater good of people she didn’t even know but still deeply cared about.”
October 9 theater release
October 9 is the date the film reaches theaters, and that puts the project on a direct line to a longtime question inside Sorkin’s own career: whether he could make a sequel without turning it into a retread. He is directing it himself, while David Fincher could not sign on because he has been working on The Adventures of Cliff Booth, due later this year.
Almost 16 years after The Social Network, Sorkin is no longer framing the follow-up as a hypothetical. He has tied it to Haugen, to Facebook’s internal documents, and to a cast built around the company’s worst chapter; for viewers, the pitch is simple enough to measure against the first film’s eight Oscar nominations and three wins.
