Aaron Sorkin Tried to Get Jesse Eisenberg Back as Mark Zuckerberg for ‘Social Reckoning,’ but the Actor Doesn’t ‘Want to Be Conflated’ With the Facebook Founder Anymore

Jun 12, 2026 12:26pm PT Aaron Sorkin Tried to Get Jesse Eisenberg Back as Mark Zuckerberg for ‘Social Reckoning,’ but the Actor Doesn’t ‘Want to Be Conflated’ With the Facebook Founder Anymore

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Jesse Eisenberg, 2010. ph: Merrick Morton/©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Jeremy Strong’s take on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg officially debuted with the launch of the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin‘s “The Social Reckoning,” a follow-up to 2010’s “The Social Network.” Sorkin won an Oscar for his screenplay of the first movie and returns to write and replace David Fincher as the director of the new film. He recently told Vanity Fair that he spent three days trying get Jesse Eisenberg back as Zuckerberg.

“I felt like it belonged to him, and he was certainly battle-tested,” says Sorkin of originally wanting Eisenberg to reprise his Oscar-nominated role. “He simply did not want to be conflated with Mark Zuckerberg anymore, that he has his problems with the guy. He doesn’t like kids coming up to him in airports with business cards that say ‘I’m CEO, bitch’ for him to sign.”