The Social Reckoning is a 2026 legal thriller written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and is a sequel to the 2010 film The Social Network. We find Mark Zuckerberg twelve years later and now played by Jeremy Strong as his company experiences a whistleblower leak by data engineer Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, who feeds information on Facebook's algorithmic changes, their consequences, and Facebook leadership's indifference of those consequences to Jeff Horwitz of the Wall Street Journal, played here by Jeremy Allen White. Costars include Bill Burr and Wunmi Mosaku as Zuck's advisors who are coaching him through a rehearsal of an impending Senate hearing, and Bill Magnussen as Facebook media fixer Teddy.
Timestamps:
- (0:7:35) Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
- (0:31:57) Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017)
- (0:47:36) The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
- (1:10:38) The Social Reckoning (Aaron Sorkin, 2026)
- (1:49:53) Spoilers for The Social Reckoning
- (2:12:30) Next time: Street Fighter (Kitao Sakurai, 2026)
- (2:13:47) Punishment: Undefeatable (Godfrey Hall, 1993)
Works Cited:
- 20 Years Later, Pulse Is Still the Creepiest Horror Movie About Internet Ghosts (Cheryl Eddy, 2020)
- A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992)
- Aaron Sorkin's Farce to Be Reckoned With (Adam Nayman, 2026)
- All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
- Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin, 2021)
- Film of the Week: Molly's Game (Jonathan Romney, 2017)
- Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin, 2017)
- Molly's Game | The New Yorker (Richard Brody, 2017)
- 'Molly's Game' review by Josh Lewis • Letterboxd
- Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)
- Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
- Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
- Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle, 2015)
- Street Fighter (Kitao Sakurai, 2026)
- Sweet Home (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1989)
- The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
- The Social Reckoning (Aaron Sorkin, 2026)
- "The Social Reckoning" Leaves Out the Human Element | The New Yorker (Richard Brody, 2026)
- The Social Reckoning review – a diluted version of a far better film (Hannah Strong, 2026)
- 'The Social Reckoning' Wants to Be 'All the Zuckerberg's Men' (David Fear, 2026)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
- Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin, 2020)
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Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel
Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa
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