‘The Social Reckoning’ Trailer: Jeremy Strong Is Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin’s Followup About Facebook Whistleblower

Co-starring Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White, the Sony picture opens theatrically on October 9.

Fifteen years after “The Social Network” won three Academy Awards and became a 21st-century classic, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is now both writing and directing. “The Social Reckoning,” in theaters this fall from Sony, has debuted its first official trailer — and therefore our first footage of Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. Watch below.

The film also stars “Anora” Best Actress winner Mikey Madison as Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who facilitated the 2021 leak of Meta internal documents containing the social platform’s secrets. At the time, Haugen enlisted the help of Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, played by Jeremy Allen White. Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, and Bill Burr also star in “The Social Reckoning.”

Sorkin won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 2011 for “The Social Network,” which was directed by David Fincher. It’s Sorkin’s first feature as a director since “Being the Ricardos” in 2021, and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” before that. Producers on “The Social Reckoning” are Aaron Sorkin, Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart M. Besser.

As we reported out of CinemaCon when the first footage dropped in April, “Strong as Zuckerberg will turn a whole lot of heads, giving an intense performance in the teaser trailer that the CinemaCon crowd saw. Strong looked dead-eyed and focused, with a careful speech cadence that matches what Zuckerberg has become. He says in the trailer that he’s far from the ‘dorm room’ days, and that when he says the conversation is over, it’s over. Sorkin was on stage to talk about the film, saying Facebook’s influence ‘has reshaped everything’ since he made the first film about the dream of a social network that ‘exploded into a global corporation.'”

Strong has worked with Sorkin before, having also starred in “Trial of the Chicago 7” as Vietnam War-era social activist and peace leader Jerry Rubin. He also played a historical figure most recently in “The Apprentice” as Trump’s ’70s and ’80s lawyer Roy Cohn.

Watch the trailer for “The Social Reckoning” below. Sony opens the film theatrically starting Friday, October 9.

Correction: This story previously said that “The Social Reckoning” was based on the book “The Accidental Billionaires.” That 2009 book actually inspired “The Social Network,” rather than the new film.