‘Social Network Part II’ in the Works from Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin will take another look at Facebook in a follow-up to his 2010 film The Social Network. 

As reported by Deadline and other outlets, Sorkin, 64, has a script in the works with Sony for The Social Network Part II, inspired by The Wall Street Journal’s The Facebook Files. The filmmaker, who won the 2011 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the David Fincher-directed original, will also take over as director of the project. 

The Social Network explored the origins of the groundbreaking social media platform Facebook, with breakout Jesse Eisenberg playing its founder Mark Zuckerberg. The award-winning movie costarred Andrew Garfield as the company’s co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker and Armie Hammer in a dual role as the twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, who had claimed Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them. 

There is no word on whether Eisenberg and his costars would reprise their roles from The Social Network. Much has changed for the social platform since that movie’s release; parent company Meta has issued controversial changes to its content moderation protocols and community standards across Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg, 41, has become the world’s third wealthiest person, according to Forbes. He attended Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration before Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit over Trump’s previous suspension from its platforms over the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots in Washington, D.C. 

The Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Facebook — Sorkin’s apparent source material for The Social Network Part II — exposed the inner workings of the platform, leaking internal documents in 2021. 

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Fincher, 62, described the notion of a sequel to The Social Network as “a can of worms” in a 2023 Guardian interview. Sorkin told The Hollywood Reporter back in 2021 that he felt open to collaborating with Fincher again.

“I think what has been going on with Facebook these last few years is a story very much worth telling, and there is a way to tell it as a follow up to The Social Network, and that’s as much as I know,” the West Wing creator said at the time. 

PEOPLE reached out to Sony for comment.