Aaron Sorkin is working on a sequel to The Social Network focused on January 6th

Aaron Sorkin has announced that he is currently writing a follow-up script for Social network, . He broke the news during an episode of The city podcast focused on how in the years since his Oscar-winning hit. The first film chronicles the early days of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and features Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake, among others.

Sorkin is tight-lipped about the actual details of the new script, but it looks like he’ll be following Facebook throughout the Trump era. He went on to tell the podcast hosts that he actually blames the social media site for the January 6 riots, which and . “Look, yes, I’m going to write about it,” Sorkin told podcast hosts Matthew Belloni and Peter Hamby. “I blame Facebook for January 6th.”

He gave no reason why he blamed Facebook for the attack on the capital, telling the podcast hosts they would have to “buy a movie ticket”. Facebook, Google, Twitter and Reddit as part of the January 6 investigation. Legislators that Facebook needs to address the Stop Theft movement that was organized on the platform, and that it didn’t recognize the danger these groups posed until after the DC violence.

Whistleblower Francis Haugen told Congress that Facebook after the 2020 election. She also said Facebook knew its algorithms and platforms and that it “failed to deploy internally recommended or durable countermeasures.” According to Haugen, the company chose profits over safety.

Sorkin was clearly paying attention to all of this, saying in the same interview that “Facebook, among other things, is tweaking its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because it will increase engagement.” He also insulted the company by suggesting that “there has to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There is no. There is only growth.”

Now don’t go to your local multiplex to buy a ticket The Social Network 2: Electric Boogaloo right now. The script is still in the early stages and Sorkin has not announced a partnership with any studio to make the film. This isn’t his first attempt at doing something like this off the ground, either. He had previously been working on a script entirely for January 6, but it did not move forward. It remains to be seen whether some aspects of this script will be followed up Social network, if indeed it is done. He said to that he would only insist on making a sequel Social network if David Fincher returns to direct it.

If a studio agrees to do this project, which is quite likely given the success of the 2010 film, that leaves me with two obvious questions. Can Jesse Eisenberg and what his thoughts are ?

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