‘The Social Reckoning’ Trailer: Aaron Sorkin Returns

UPDATED with new trailer: “I’m an investigative reporter, and that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.”

So begins the latest trailer for writer-director Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Reckoning, which hits theaters October 9 — more than a decade and a half after the Best Picture Oscar-nominated The Social Network. The quote is from Wall Street Journal writer Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), “that guy” is one Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong), and “this company” is — well, you know.

Oscar winner Mikey Madison plays Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. Check out the new trailer above, and read more about the film and watch the first trailer below.

PREVIOUSLY, June 10: We have our first look at Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning. Check it out below. 

Described as a “companion piece to The Social Network,” this new film is based on the events that sparked the Wall Street Journal’s exposé “The Facebook Files.”

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The official synopsis reads: The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

The Social Reckoning arrives roughly 16 years after David Fincher’s The Social Network and releases via Columbia Pictures on October 9. Sorkin directed from his own script. 

The film’s cast features Mikey Madison, Wunmi Mosaku, Betty Gilpin, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong. Sorkin produced alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser. 

The exec producers are Lauren Lohman, Roger McNamee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Broderick Johnson, and Andrew A. Kosove. 

In the trailer, we see Madison’s character meet with a reporter, played by White, and she tells him she wants to “help Facebook, not hurt it,” which leaves White to wonder why she reached out to him.

We then go to court and get a first look at Strong as Mark Zuckerberg — taking over a role made iconic by Jesse Eisenberg. He seems remorseless amid reports of Facebook’s “unprecedented” impacts on society — impacts not necessarily for the better — calling himself a “free speech absolutist” and “not the one who’s lying.”

Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.