Aaron Sorkin to write and direct ‘The Social Network Part 2’

Aaron Sorkin folds up on Facebook.

Fourteen years after winning an Oscar for The social networkSorkin is about to write and make a monitoring film, which is repeating the technological giant of Mark Zuckerberg, Weekly entertainment confirmed.

The social part II is installed on Sony Pictures and will be inspired by the Wall Street Journal“The investigation in 2021” Facebook files “, which said, on the basis of internal documents and discussions on employees, that the company had long known that there were problems with its platforms which inflicted real damage but had not done anything to correct them.

Deadline Hollywood pointed out for the first time.

Released in 2010, the original Social network is based on Ben Mezrich’s book Accidental billionairesChronicle Facebook’s creation at Harvard University and the legal battle that followed between Zuckerberg and the co-founder Eduardo Saverin. The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg in the role of Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield like Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker and Armie Hammer as twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.

The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including the best film, and won three: the best screenplay suitable for Sorkin, as well as the best original partition and the best film editing.

Sorkin, whose other screen credits include The west wing,, Some good menAnd Steve Jobspreviously expressed his interest in a project attacking what happened with Facebook in the years.

On an episode of The city Podcast last year, Sorkin said he held the company responsible for a large part of the division that permeates the modern world. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” Sorkin said.

He added: “Facebook was, among others, to settle his algorithm to promote the most divisor possible equipment. Because this is what will increase the commitment. This is what will bring you – what they call in the corridors of Facebook -” infinite scrolling “… There is supposed to be a constant tension on Facebook between growth and integrity. There is only growth.”

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While the director nominated for the Oscars, David Fincher, will not be back in Helm The social part IIEisenberg said in the past that he would like to represent Zuckerberg again.

“Oh, yes,” said Eisenberg about a potential suite in a 2019 interview with Indiewire. “Playing a good role in a popular thing is very rare. It was an opportunity to play a complicated character that you play normally on stage or an art film, but on a large scale. For me, it was incredibly lucky.”