Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network Sequel Officially in Development (theguardian.com) 22
Aaron Sorkin is officially working on a sequel to The Social Network. From a report: Last year, the Oscar-winning writer revealed he was working on a film that would revisit the subject of Facebook, and Deadline has now reported that The Social Network Part II is in development at Sony Pictures yet isn't a "straight sequel."
The original film, which traced the early days of Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg, was directed by David Fincher. Sorkin is rumoured to be directing the follow-up. "I blame Facebook for January 6," he said in 2024 on a special edition of The Town podcast, live from Washington DC. When asked to explain why, he responded: "You're gonna need to buy a movie ticket."
The Social Network was an adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires, and the sequel will be based on the Wall Street Journal series The Facebook Files. The 2021 investigation examined the damage caused by the social networking site and how internal findings had been buried. Subjects included the influence on the January 6 riot and the mental health of teenage users.
The original film, which traced the early days of Facebook and its creator Mark Zuckerberg, was directed by David Fincher. Sorkin is rumoured to be directing the follow-up. "I blame Facebook for January 6," he said in 2024 on a special edition of The Town podcast, live from Washington DC. When asked to explain why, he responded: "You're gonna need to buy a movie ticket."
The Social Network was an adaptation of Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires, and the sequel will be based on the Wall Street Journal series The Facebook Files. The 2021 investigation examined the damage caused by the social networking site and how internal findings had been buried. Subjects included the influence on the January 6 riot and the mental health of teenage users.
Presumably... (Score:4, Insightful)
Indeed (Score:2)
I enjoyed the first Social Network movie, and wonder how much truth there is in it; but this sounds like garbage.
I am not really a Zukerberg fan myself; who is?
But I have to give him credit for developing Facebook into company super successful company.
I love the concept of a social network, were I can share and connect, I just hate the centralization and Zuck or anyone else watching and controlling the data.
Whatsapp, running on XMPP was a great idea, provides many people across the globe an alternative to t
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" I enjoyed the first Social Network movie " ?? That makes you Zuck fan by default.
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You are right! I enjoyed Jaws, and I like sharks.
I enjoyed the Terminator, and I am obsessed with killer AI robots.
But my favorite was Titanic, and I cannot live without ice.
I like to think that the Social Network was a very entertaining documentary.
I do admit I respect the Winklevoss twins, they are not one trick ponies either with Gemini doing well.
Maybe the movie was all villains...
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But I have to give him credit for developing Facebook into company super successful company
Why? If I became a facebook preacher and convinced senile boomers to reverse mortgage their homes and give me the proceeds, would you have to hand it to me?
Do i gotta hand it to Jack Welsh. Sure he destroyed a legendary US corporation... but man he did make some quick bucks too... gotta hand it to him?
What about peter theil? You know he's put the private data of the whole wold into elasticsearch... but man he did get rich too.
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Why?
Because Facebook pretty much ran MySpace and Friendster out of business.
Not even Google managed to compete with Google Buzz or Google+.
Today LinkedIn, Snapchat, Twitter, and Tiktok combined still do not appear to beat Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads combined) in market cap, user base, or revenue.
What I take away from that, is I am not going to ignore what Zuckerberg releases or acquires tomorrow; because either he or his puppet masters have some skill at this business stuff.
They produce things that peopl
Let's start with 20 days per year ... (Score:3)
... mandatory paid vacation for full time jobs and fully wealth-transfer funded basic healthcare. You know, like every other first world country on the planet. How's that for a plan?
One-word proposed title (Score:2)
Enshittification
Sorkins scripts are the best ... (Score:3)
... but I'd rather have movie itself directed by Fincher. They both collaborate very closely and AFAIK are good friends, but I don't see _anyone_ coming close to dialog movies directed by Fincher. He's basically his own league as a film director and just about anybody who knows anything about films agrees on that.
January 6th (Score:1, Interesting)
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Reality has a liberal bias; or pedophile bias, or communist bias... whatever slur the delusional retards have floating around their empty minds at the time their delusions are under attack. Doesn't have to be truth, just contradicting their narrative.... Most people seem suckered into the idea everything is a narrative like truth doesn't exist because everything has bias; even the unbiased have a perceived bias due to biased interpretation. Science, which is the uncovering actual reality is under assault
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There was a time when Republicans agreed that it was bad when Trump had his minions storm the capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power [theatlantic.com] based on absurd lies. Now absurd lies are the truth and Republicans argue in public that acts of war should get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
You can still leave the cult.
Re:January 6th (Score:4, Informative)
Here's Andrew Clyde screaming in fear behind armed security on January 6th. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep... [yahoo.com]
Like all good fascists he changed his tune when the party corrected him.
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You're right. All those peaceful [youtube.com] protestors [youtube.com] standing behind [youtube.com] the velvet ropes [youtube.com].
"I blame Facebook for January 6" (Score:1, Insightful)
So, I guess Facebook is worse for adults than it is for children.
I say nobody under the age of 85 should be allowed to use it.
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He's absolutely correct. No one who orchestrated January 6th went to jail: not the people who funded the operation, or who ran the buses that drove the instigators to the capitol, nor the Felon President and his henchmen and henchwomen. Zuckerberg delivered the Presidency to Donald Trump twice, and god forbid we ever meet in person.
You missed out. Watch it. (Score:3)
"The Social Network" is to a notable extent a work of fiction and construes a Zuckerberg that doesn't really resemble the real one rather than an amalgamation of nerd-rage projected on to a fictional Mark Zuckerberg.
The movie is ever so slightly flawed in that way and does stretch the one or other trope a little too hard when observed in isolation ("crazy bitch", "angry wounded nerd", "loudmouth silicon valley investor" etc.) but those are _all_ placed and played in service of the story and its telling and
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Sorkin's dialog always punches above it's weight. Knowing he was involved and your review has convinced me to watch the film. I panned it as another harmfully warped take on major turning point in history.
Soundtrack (Score:2)