Deadline reports that Sony is transferring ahead with The Social Community Half II, a “follow-up” to David Fincher’s 2010 characteristic about how TheFacebook went on to turn into some of the singularly influential web sites in web historical past and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire within the course of. Although Fincher isn’t hooked up to the brand new film, Aaron Sorkin — who wrote the primary — is coming again to jot down and direct Half II. No manufacturing timelines or casting bulletins have been made, however Sorkin will produce the mission alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.
Whereas a lot of The Social Community was primarily based on Ben Mezrich’s The Unintended Billionaires, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Half II will draw inspiration from The Facebook Files, The Wall Road Journal’s article sequence that explored the myriad societal harms Fb has precipitated through the years. Final yr, Sorkin teased that he’d been considering a sequel to The Social Community which may dig into the way in which Fb helped foment the fashion that culminated in an tried coup on January sixth, 2021.
It seems like that concept has developed a full-blown image that Sony needs to make, and given how rather more of a juggernaut Fb has turn into lately, Sorkin’s resolution to go a much bigger with Half II might be transfer.