Jeremy Strong is another actor in line for a role in the upcoming The Social Network Part II and sources say he is the top choice to play META CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Sources say no formal offer has been presented but that he is the top choice to play the Facebook founder. Deadline first reported last night Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison are top choices to star with Aaron Sorkin writing and directing.
Sony and reps for Strong had no comment.
Deadline first reported in June that Sorkin would direct and pen a sequel after years of figuring out what angle he wanted to pursue for this next chapter in telling the Facebook story. The new film project is in development with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing. In the first film, Zuckerberg was played by Jessie Eisenberg, who went on to receive an Oscar nomination for the role.
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The film is not a straight sequel but rather a follow-up to the original 2010 movie that explored the beginnings of what would become the world’s biggest social media platform.
Sorkin’s original screenplay for the new movie explores the story behind the Wall Street Journal‘s The Facebook Files by Jeff Horowitz, an explosive series of articles published in October 2021 that exposed the inner workings of — and multiple harms caused by — Facebook. Ideally, White would play Horowitz and Madison would play the whistleblower behind the series of articles.
Strong is repped by WME and Range.
