Aaron Sorkin goes back to Facebook. The Social Reckoning stars Mikey Madison as whistleblower Frances Haugen, Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, and Jeremy Strong as a Mark Zuckerberg who has run out of places to look away. Pete Wright, Tommy Metz III, Steve Sarmento, and Justin Jaeger take the whole thing apart.
Is this the Sorkin movie that finally respects the record, or just his most convincing one yet? Does the January 6 war room land as a reckoning, or let Facebook off easy? And how much Sorkin is too much Sorkin? The panel does not agree.
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What's real. Jeff Horwitz walked through what the film gets right, from the burner phone to the backyard meetings, in an account summarized by Hollywood Life. Pete's point about why Haugen joined Facebook comes from her own Senate testimony, where she said someone close to her had been radicalized online. For the full hearing, Just Security's recap covers the day.
Where Charlie came from. Bill Burr's character was inspired by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also an executive producer on the film. Sorkin told Vanity Fair why the name had to change (via Business Insider).
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