Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network Sequel Officially in Development (theguardian.com) 29
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
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Lol dude if you don't think GE was destroyed then you didn't google too hard. They went through bankruptcy,
Earlier this year boz declared that if meta horizon worlds and their ray-bans don't take off THIS YEAR. The company has no roadmap going forward.
Facebook had luck on their side that everyone at myspace cashed their check and sold it off to a stuffy old media company that had no idea what they were doing. If anything Tom must be much smarter than Zuck.
As for Facebook's other properties, they saw wha
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Lol dude if you don't think GE was destroyed then you didn't google too hard. They went through bankruptcy,
Googling "GE Bankruptcy" returns the exact opposite results.
While there are assertions that GE is on the decline, they have not filed for bankruptcy; but have split into three independent companies.
I am happy to concede Jack Welsh contributed to GE's decline, although I could not assert it with any confidence; nor can I back your claim that GE was destroyed or went through bankruptcy.
It does not defeat your claim Jack Welsh was some horrible person and GE would have been better under another CEO; but so far
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But hey, I am guilty. I love my Meta Quest 3, nothing else competes in price and features and ease of use; again come on Valve with the Deckard!
This is exactly how i feel about my Q3. I really didn't wanna buy it but my old headset was showing its age and every better headset costs like 2x as much and is compromised in some way compared to the q3. Was really trying to hold out for a wireless index though.
Yeah and I do also agree that vr and the related technologies represent major growth. All these companies seem to think they're on a timeline like "iphone drops... everyone gets a smartphone within 4 years" I think these guys are building newt
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am a big fan of PayPal, still use it now when I am buying something online not from Amazon.
I suspect Peter's wealth comes primarily from PayPal and an early investment in Facebook.
I have only recently heard about Palantir which I am suspect your quote is referring to.
If he can get ahold of the data it unfortunately is not private, but perhaps should be.
Just like Facebook, the issue is not someone collecting so called "private" data, the issue is people giving away their private data.
Cannot really blame Peter for making a business gathering it up.
You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?
Literally everything you posted here is the opposite of what I'm talking about, which isn't paypal btw.
Gotta hand it to Thiel, for a literal bloodsucking ghoul, he's sure good at keeping a low profile.
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You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?
Literally everything you posted here is the opposite of what I'm talking about, which isn't paypal btw.
Gotta hand it to Thiel, for a literal bloodsucking ghoul, he's sure good at keeping a low profile.
I guess I do not know what you are talking about, but to my defense you seem to make fairly hyperbolic assertions.
I assumed that "You know he's put the private data of the whole wold into elasticsearch." referred to Palantir Technologies.
I am eager to be pointed to more information on Mr. Thiel, now that you have brought him to my attention.
As for Mr. Thiel keeping a low profile, it seems you may be being sarcastic there given even before reading your response today a New York Time's interview with Peter Th
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Peter theil does keep a low profile. He did all that tony stark ceo grandstanding shit but it took a long time for his sexuality to come out, his bloodboy, and still what exactly palintir makes despite being inferable at this point.
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)