Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel to The Social Network

The Social Network is yet getting a sequel courtesy of Sony.

Deadline reports that Sony is moving guardant with The Social Network Part II, a “follow-up” to David Fincher’s 2010 diagnostic astir however TheFacebook went connected to go 1 of the astir singularly influential websites successful net past and made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire successful the process. Though Fincher is not attached to the caller movie, Aaron Sorkin — who wrote the archetypal — is coming backmost to constitute and nonstop Part II. No accumulation timelines oregon casting announcements person been made, but Sorkin volition nutrient the task alongside Todd Black, Peter Rice, and Stuart Besser.

While overmuch of The Social Network was based connected Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Part II will gully inspiration from The Facebook Files, The Wall Street Journal‘s nonfiction bid that explored the myriad societal harms Facebook has caused implicit the years. Last year, Sorkin teased that he’d been contemplating a sequel to The Social Network that mightiness excavation into the mode Facebook helped foment the rage that culminated successful an attempted coup connected January 6th, 2021.

It sounds similar that thought has evolved a full-blown representation that Sony wants to make, and fixed how overmuch much of a juggernaut Facebook has go successful caller years, Sorkin’s determination to spell a bigger with Part II is astir apt a bully move.