Teaser for The Social Reckoning, a film by Aaron Sorkin, follow-up to The Social Network

12 June 2026

Although hints of what was to come were there to see, The Social Network, the 2010 dramatisation of the founding of Facebook, had the hallmarks of a feel-good story.

At least from the perspective of would-be entrepreneurs, whose next-big-thing idea, had, against the odds (of course), become the next-big-thing.

A lot has happened in sixteen years though, and there’s not much left in the Facebook story for many people to feel good about today.

Aaron Sorkin, who co-wrote the screenplay for the David Fincher directed 2010 feature, has tapped into the darkness pervading the world’s largest social network, to write and direct a follow-up to the 2010 film, titled The Social Reckoning.

Sorkin initially floated the idea of a sequel in 2024. At that point the American playwright and screenwriter sought to cast a critical light on the part he felt Facebook played in the January 6 insurrection of 2021, in the United States.

But Sorkin’s focus has changed. In The Social Reckoning the negative impact on users mental health is among subject matter explored. As is co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s seeming dictatorial style of management.

Darkness permeates the teaser/trailer. Gloom is banished, but only momentarily, by the glare of bright spotlights shining in our faces. There are no frat-house parties, or swimming pool high-jinks, in this chapter of the social network’s story. This is a bleak world indeed we now find ourselves in.

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