{"id":214334,"date":"2025-06-25T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214334\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:59:08","slug":"aaron-sorkin-is-making-a-sequel-to-the-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214334\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/the-social-network-sequel-aaron-sorkin-1236439539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline reports<\/a> that Sony is moving forward with The Social Network Part II, a \u201cfollow-up\u201d to David Fincher\u2019s 2010 feature about how TheFacebook went on to become one of the most singularly influential websites in internet history and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire in the process. Though Fincher is not attached to the new movie, Aaron Sorkin \u2014 who wrote the first \u2014 is coming back to write and direct Part II. No production timelines or casting announcements have been made, but Sorkin will produce the project alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While much of The Social Network was based on Ben Mezrich\u2019s The Accidental Billionaires, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/social-network-sequel-in-the-works-with-aaron-sorkin-1236299598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Part II will draw inspiration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/social-network-sequel-in-the-works-with-aaron-sorkin-1236299598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Facebook Files<\/a>, The Wall Street Journal\u2019s article series that explored the myriad societal harms Facebook has caused over the years. Last year, Sorkin teased that he\u2019d been contemplating a sequel to The Social Network that might dig into the way Facebook helped foment the rage that culminated in an attempted coup on January 6th, 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It sounds like that idea has evolved a full-blown picture that Sony wants to make, and given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/meta\/659506\/mark-zuckerberg-ai-facebook-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how much more of a juggernaut<\/a> Facebook has become in recent years, Sorkin\u2019s decision to go a bigger with Part II is probably a good move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline reports that Sony is moving forward with The Social Network Part II, a \u201cfollow-up\u201d to David Fincher\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,600,3063,598,12,326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-facebook","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-meta","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114746488776346685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}