Aaron Sorkin is writing a brand new film that would function a sequel to The Social Community.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter broke the information when he was requested throughout a live-from-D.C. version of The City podcast about how Fb and social media have influenced democracy within the years since his 2010 hit.
“Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this,” Sorkin instructed Matthew Belloni and Peter Hamby, after glancing at his publicist for “permission” to speak concerning the undertaking. “I blame Fb for January 6.”
When requested why he blames a social media firm for a pro-Donald Trump mob storming the U.S. Capitol, Sorkin replied, “You’re going to want to purchase a film ticket.”
Pressed if meaning he’s writing this concept particularly as a film, Sorkin replied, “I’m attempting. Fb has been, amongst different issues, tuning its algorithm to advertise probably the most divisive materials doable. As a result of that’s what will improve engagement. That’s what will get you to — what they name contained in the hallways of Fb — ‘the infinite scroll’ … There’s purported to be a continuing pressure at Fb between progress and integrity. There isn’t. There’s simply progress. If Mark Zuckerberg awakened tomorrow morning and realized there may be nothing you should purchase for $120 billion that you would be able to’t purchase for $119 billion {dollars}, ‘So how about if I make just a little bit much less cash? I’ll tune up integrity and tune down progress.’ Sure, you are able to do that by switching a one to a zero.”
Sources near Sorkin confirmed Friday that the author is engaged on a Social Community-adjacent screenplay, however emphasised the undertaking was early days and there was no studio accomplice as of but.
Sorkin was beforehand engaged on a Jan. 6 script that finally didn’t transfer ahead. It’s unclear if components from that effort will discover their means into the brand new script.
Sorkin has beforehand said he hoped to ultimately write a Social Community sequel about “the darkish facet” of Fb, particularly if David Fincher would return to direct. “I feel what has been happening with Fb these previous few years is a narrative very a lot value telling, and there’s a strategy to inform it as a comply with as much as The Social Community, and that’s as a lot as I do know,” he instructed THR in 2021. And in 2020, Sorkin instructed the Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast: “Folks have been speaking to me about [a sequel] due to what we’ve found is the darkish facet of Fb. Do I wish to write that film? Yeah I do. I’ll solely write it if [David Fincher] directs it. If Billy Wilder got here again from the grave and stated he needed to direct it, I’d say I’d solely do it with David.”
Throughout The City podcast, Sorkin was additionally requested The West Wing might nonetheless work as a tv present as we speak.
“The present premiered in 1999 and a lot of the mail that we bought would start with, ‘I’m a Republican and I don’t agree with the political positions that your characters take,’ however what they appreciated was [the characters’] sense of patriotism, the sense of dedication,” he stated. “The present romanticized public service … I don’t know that in as we speak’s local weather, you’d get the ‘I’m a Republican however.’ I feel that they’d doubtless see all the things as an assault on what was occurring proper now.”
Sorkin additionally warned about that Palestine protesters on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in August would possibly result in the re-election of Trump.
“I hope that college students — people who find themselves planning on demonstrating there, and I’m all for demonstrating— I hope they keep in mind that Nixon barely beat Humphrey in 1968, and its very doubtless the sight of riots on the [DNC convention], turned some individuals off from Democrats. I hope individuals particularly keep in mind that as difficult and vital because the conflict in Gaza is, that is an election about Trump vs. not-Trump and there may be an existential selection there.”