“The Social Network”
Writer Aaron Sorkin is hoping for the Facebook film to continue
Aaron Sorkin at a 2010 screening of “The Social Network”.
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Aaron Sorkin won a Screenplay Oscar over ten years ago for his film about the founding of Facebook. Now he wants a sequel.
In 2011, Aaron Sorkin (60) won the Oscar for the best adapted screenplay for the film “The Social Network”, which deals with the genesis of the social network Facebook. Now the star author (“Moneyball”, “Steve Jobs”) has once again indicated that he would like to see a sequel. There should certainly not be a lack of sufficient material.
Originally started as a pure screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin now directs his scripts himself. He shot “Molly’s Game” with Jessica Chastian (44) and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” for Netflix, with “Being the Ricardos” with Nicole Kidman in the starting blocks (54). In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter magazine, the various US media picked upSorkin was asked if he could imagine working again as a writer for other directors. The 60-year-old affirmed and named “The Social Network” maker David Fincher (59) as a possible partner.
Facebook scandals as fodder for Sorkin
When the name Fincher was mentioned, it was of course also about a possible continuation of the Facebook film. Sorkin was once again not averse to a sequel. “I think what has happened to Facebook over the past few years is a story worth telling, and there is a way to tell it as a sequel to ‘The Social Network,'” he said.
In recent years there have been a lot of negative headlines about Facebook, most recently about an allegedly suppressed study that proved the harmfulness of social media such as the in-house platform Instagram to the psyche of young girls. By changing the name of the Facebook company to Meta, Zuckerberg took a step forward to change the tarnished image.
“The Social Network 2” only with David Fincher
A year ago, Aaron had Sorkin from one possible “social network” sequel. On a podcast, he said he wanted to write a sequel as a dark side of Facebook also became visible ten years after the original. A participation in a sequel, however, linked Sorkin to an involvement of David Fincher. He joked, “Even if Billy Wilder came out of the grave and said he wanted to direct, I would say I would only do it with David”.