Aaron Sorkin confirms he’s working on another movie about Facebook

Liam Mathews
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If there ever was a based-on-a-true-story movie that called for a sequel, it’s “The Social Network,” director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 classic about the founding of Facebook. The early years covered in the film were just the beginning of the Mark Zuckerberg story before Facebook (now Meta) became one of the most powerful companies on the planet, capable of shaping the future of democracy for the worse. 

So it’s no wonder that Sorkin is working on a sort of sequel to “The Social Network.” 

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During an interview on the showbiz news podcast “The Town,” Sorkin was asked how he thinks Facebook and social media, in general, have impacted democracy in the 14 years since “The Social Network” came out. 

After exchanging a look with his publicist, Sorkin told host Matthew Belloni and guest co-host Peter Hamby that he’s planning to write a movie about this topic. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” he said.

“Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible,” he explained. “Because that is what will increase engagement. That is what will get you to — what they call inside the hallways of Facebook ‘the infinite scroll.’” And he blames Zuckerberg for this. 

“There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity,” he continued. “There isn’t. There’s just growth. If Mark Zuckerberg woke up tomorrow morning and realized there is nothing you can buy for $120 billion that you can’t buy for $119 billion dollars, ‘So how about if I make a little bit less money? I will tune up integrity and tune down growth.’ Yes, you can do that by honestly switching a one to a zero and a zero to a one.”

A source close to Sorkin told The Hollywood Reporter that while he is developing a screenplay, it’s very early days and no studio is attached yet. 

Sorkin has talked about his intentions to make some sort of sequel to “The Social Network” before. “I think what has been going on with Facebook these last few years is a story very much worth telling, and there is a way to tell it as a follow up to ‘The Social Network,’ and that’s as much as I know,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. And in 2020, he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he wants to write about “what we’ve discovered about the dark side of Facebook,” but only if Fincher returns as director. 

“The Social Network” is one of the most acclaimed films of the 2010s. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, including Best Adapted Screenplay for Sorkin, Best Original Score for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and Best Film Editing for Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama.

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