Sony Sets Sorkin's The Social Reckoning for Oct 9, 2026

Sony Pictures announced Friday that Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network, now titled The Social Reckoning, will open in theaters on Oct. 9, 2026. The studio said the film, written and to be directed by Sorkin, will star Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong, with Strong confirmed to portray Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

According to the announcement, The Social Reckoning is described as a companion piece to the 2010 film and is set roughly 17 years after the events dramatized in The Social Network. The story centers on Frances Haugen, a former Facebook engineer, who enlists the help of a Wall Street Journal reporter to expose alleged internal research and practices at the social network. Reports identified the reporter as Jeff Horwitz, though some accounts have spelled his name Horowitz. The reporting that inspired the film, a 2021 series widely referred to as The Facebook Files, documented company research about harms to teen users and the spread of misinformation, according to journalists who worked on the package.

Sorkin is producing the film alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice and Stuart Besser. Sony’s release said production is expected...