Development
In January 2019, Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter of The Social Network (2010), revealed that producer Scott Rudin had suggested the development of a screenplay for a sequel, noting, "A lot of very interesting, dramatic stuff has happened since the movie ends." Sorkin also mentioned that there was indeed enough material to create a sequel. On July 18, 2019, Jesse Eisenberg, who starred as Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, expressed his interests in starring in the proposed sequel, stating that "Sorkin is a genius, and if he chooses to write about something, I'll obviously be interested". In October 2020, a decade after the film's release, Sorkin announced that he would only write the sequel if David Fincher returned as director. By 2021, Sorkin began directing films whose scripts he had written and reiterated his interest in writing a follow-up film for The Social Network. In 2023, Fincher told The Guardian that he and Sorkin have discussed a sequel, but said "that's a can of worms." In April 2024, Sorkin said he had been working on the script for a new Facebook film tied to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.
Announced with the title The Social Network Part II, the film was reported to have entered development in June 2025, with Sorkin attached as both writer and director, with the story focusing on the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen as reported by Jeff Horwitz in The Facebook Files for The Wall Street Journal. Sorkin produced alongside Todd Black and Stuart M. Besser, after collaborating on his last two films, The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) and Being the Ricardos (2022), as director. The title was changed to The Social Reckoning in September 2025.
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