Aaron Sorkin is logging back on.
The Oscar-winning writer behind The Social Network is officially writing and directing a follow-up to his 2010 Facebook origin story.
This time, it’s not about how Facebook was built. It’s about how it helped break everything else.
According to insiders, the new film will center on “The Facebook Files,” a 2021 Wall Street Journal investigation that revealed how the company knowingly let its platform amplify misinformation, fuel teen mental health issues, and help destabilize entire countries—all while publicly pretending everything was fine.
While the original was helmed by David Fincher, this follow-up will be directed by Sorkin himself, whose credits include The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Being the Ricardos. And although it won’t be a beat-for-beat sequel, inside sources told Deadline the movie is very much a spiritual continuation.
The idea reportedly crystallized for Sorkin after the Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021, which he believes Facebook had a role in fueling. The film won’t be about that day directly, but it will dive into the platform’s outsized influence on everything from global politics to your cousin’s sudden distrust of the CDC.
The original Social Network was a critical and commercial powerhouse, raking in over $226 million and winning three Oscars, including one for Sorkin’s machine-gun dialogue. Thirteen years later, he’s back to answer the only question that really matters: How did we go from poking each other to full-blown digital chaos?
No release date yet. But it sounds like we’ll soon have a very well-written reason why none of us can log off—even when we really, really want to.
