Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network Sequel Officially in Development (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2144252/aaron-sorkins-the-social-network-sequel-officially-in-development
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/25/aaron-sorkins-the-social-network-sequel
> Last year, the Oscar-winning writer revealed he was working on a film that would revisit the subject of Facebook, and Deadline has now reported that The Social Network Part II is in development at Sony Pictures yet isn't a "straight sequel."
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> The original film, which traced the early days of Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg, was directed by David Fincher. Sorkin is rumoured to be directing the follow-up. "I blame Facebook for January 6," he said in 2024 on a special edition of The Town podcast, live from Washington DC. When asked to explain why, he responded: "You're gonna need to buy a movie ticket."
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> The Social Network was an adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires, and the sequel will be based on the Wall Street Journal series The Facebook Files. The 2021 investigation examined the damage caused by the social networking site and how internal findings had been buried. Subjects included the influence on the January 6 riot and the mental health of teenage users.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/25/aaron-sorkins-the-social-network-sequel
Let's start with 20 days per year ... (Score:2)
... mandatory paid vacation for full time jobs and fully wealth-transfer funded basic healthcare. You know, like every other first world country on the planet. How's that for a plan?
One-word proposed title (Score:1)
Enshittification
Sorkins scripts are the best ... (Score:2)
... but I'd rather have movie itself directed by Fincher. They both collaborate very closely and AFAIK are good friends, but I don't see _anyone_ coming close to dialog movies directed by Fincher. He's basically his own league as a film director and just about anybody who knows anything about films agrees on that.
January 6th (Score:1, Redundant)
The ultimate advertising technique to get the lefties out to see this movie. Can’t you see how well they framed it in the summary? Pure rage porn for them. Bet they don’t shot the scenes of everyone staying within the velvet ropes.
Re: (Score:2)
It definitely will be rage porn. But conservatives have their beef with Facebook too, for labeling falsehoods and perhaps some censoring of posts during Covid? Not sure. But accusations of pro-Dem for sure.
Re: (Score:3)
There was a time when [1]Republicans agreed that it was bad when Trump had his minions storm the capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power [theatlantic.com] based on absurd lies. Now absurd lies are the truth and Republicans argue in public that acts of war should get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
You can still leave the cult.
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/january-6-insurrection-republicans/681360/
Presumably... (Score:3)
this one will be classified under "Horror".
Indeed (Score:2)
I enjoyed the first Social Network movie, and wonder how much truth there is in it; but this sounds like garbage.
I am not really a Zukerberg fan myself; who is?
But I have to give him credit for developing Facebook into company super successful company.
I love the concept of a social network, were I can share and connect, I just hate the centralization and Zuck or anyone else watching and controlling the data.
Whatsapp, running on XMPP was a great idea, provides many people across the globe an alternative to t