PRODUCTION THE SOCIAL RECKONING
RECKONING DAY OF
INTERVIEW OLIVER WEBB WORDS NICOLA FOLEY IMAGES LEAH GALLO © SONY PICTURES Jeff Cronenweth on revisiting the Facebook story, reuniting with Aaron Sorkin and creating a fresh visual identity for The Social Reckoning S ixteen years after The Social Network dissected the origins of Facebook, Aaron Sorkin returns to Silicon Valley with
Returning behind the camera is cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, whose other credits include Fight Club , Gone Girl and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , and whose work on the original film helped define its moody, precise look. Revisiting the story years on presented the team with a new challenge, he says: telling a story whose broad strokes were already known to audiences. “Anybody can go back and research it, or have followed it; so you’d already know about it,” he says. “But to have it presented through Aaron’s vocabulary, the way that he constructs words, and the way that
The Social Reckoning , this time contemplating the fallout of the 2021 Facebook Files leak and the whistleblower at the centre of the story, Frances Haugen. Described by Sorkin as “more of a story set in the same universe” than a direct sequel, the film revisits familiar territory through a different lens, with Jeremy Strong taking on the role of Mark Zuckerberg alongside Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin and Billy Magnussen.
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