The Social Network, the 2010 movie which advised the story of how Facebook was based, might be getting a sequel.

Oscar-successful author Aaron Sorkin will pen the script and direct the observe-up, Deadline has reported, with a spotlight on Facebook’s newer controversies.

Specifically, Sorkin is believed to be focusing on occasions mentioned within the Wall Road Journal’s The Facebook Information, which revealed leaked paperwork that recommended the social community was effectively conscious of the societal harms its algorithms had been propagating.

Sorkin has beforehand acknowledged that he believes Facebook contributed to the occasions of January 6, 2020, when rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol constructing, although Deadline sources have confused this sequel won’t particularly be a “January 6” film. As an alternative, it’ll additionally cowl the results of social media on youthful customers, and people outdoors the U.S.

Whereas Sorkin seems to have a narrative set out, the undertaking nonetheless sounds early, with no casting but confirmed. Will Jesse Eisenberg return as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? Sorkin has mulled a sequel for some time, and Eisenberg has beforehand expressed curiosity.

“Oh, yeah,” Eisenberg advised IndieWire in 2019, when requested if he would return to the position in a possible sequel. “To play a superb position in a preferred factor could be very uncommon. This was a possibility to play an advanced character that you just’d usually play onstage or an artwork movie, however on an enormous scale. For me, that was extremely lucky.”

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