Aaron Sorkin plans for a Social Network sequel with ties to Jan 6th
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-Aaron says he's planning on writing a spiritual sequel to The Social Network that examines how Facebook's algorithm impacted democracy.
-During a live edition of The Town podcast if he thinks social media and facebook influenced democracy he said: “Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this,I blame Facebook for January 6.” When asked why he blames social media for the Jan 6th mob, he replied "You’re going to need to buy a movie ticket".
-When asked if he's writing this for a movie idea: "I’m trying. Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement. That is what will get you to - what they call inside the hallways of Facebook - ‘the infinite scroll’ … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. There’s just growth. If Mark Zuckerberg woke up tomorrow morning and realized there is nothing you can buy for $120 billion that you can’t buy for $119 billion dollars, ‘So how about if I make a little bit less money? I will tune up integrity and tune down growth.’ Yes, you can do that by switching a one to a zero.”
-Sources close to Sorkin state he is writing a Social Network-adjacent script but it's in the early stages and there is not studio partner yet.
-He had been previously working on a script around the Jan 6th events but did not move forward with it. It's unclear if aspect of that script might make its way into this new script.
-He's been flirting with the idea of doing a Social Network sequel for some time now. He had been wanting to write a script that deals with the "the dark side of facebook" specifically if David Fincher comes back to direct: "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,” he told THR in 2021. And in 2020, Sorkin told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “People have been talking to me about [a sequel] because of what we’ve discovered is the dark side of Facebook. Do I want to write that movie? Yeah I do. I will only write it if [David Fincher] directs it. If Billy Wilder came back from the grave and said he wanted to direct it, I’d say I’d only do it with David.”
Also gave his 2 cents about the Pro-Palestine protestor if they show up at the DNC in August; thinks that might lead to the re-election of Trump: “I hope that students - people who are planning on demonstrating there, and I’m all for demonstrating - I hope they remember that Nixon barely beat Humphrey in 1968, and it’s very likely the sight of riots at the [DNC convention], turned some people off from Democrats. I hope people especially remember that as complicated and important as the war in Gaza is, this is an election about Trump vs. not-Trump and there is an existential choice there.”
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-Aaron says he's planning on writing a spiritual sequel to The Social Network that examines how Facebook's algorithm impacted democracy.
-During a live edition of The Town podcast if he thinks social media and facebook influenced democracy he said: “Look, yeah, I’ll be writing about this,I blame Facebook for January 6.” When asked why he blames social media for the Jan 6th mob, he replied "You’re going to need to buy a movie ticket".
-When asked if he's writing this for a movie idea: "I’m trying. Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement. That is what will get you to - what they call inside the hallways of Facebook - ‘the infinite scroll’ … There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. There’s just growth. If Mark Zuckerberg woke up tomorrow morning and realized there is nothing you can buy for $120 billion that you can’t buy for $119 billion dollars, ‘So how about if I make a little bit less money? I will tune up integrity and tune down growth.’ Yes, you can do that by switching a one to a zero.”
-Sources close to Sorkin state he is writing a Social Network-adjacent script but it's in the early stages and there is not studio partner yet.
-He had been previously working on a script around the Jan 6th events but did not move forward with it. It's unclear if aspect of that script might make its way into this new script.
-He's been flirting with the idea of doing a Social Network sequel for some time now. He had been wanting to write a script that deals with the "the dark side of facebook" specifically if David Fincher comes back to direct: "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,” he told THR in 2021. And in 2020, Sorkin told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: “People have been talking to me about [a sequel] because of what we’ve discovered is the dark side of Facebook. Do I want to write that movie? Yeah I do. I will only write it if [David Fincher] directs it. If Billy Wilder came back from the grave and said he wanted to direct it, I’d say I’d only do it with David.”
Also gave his 2 cents about the Pro-Palestine protestor if they show up at the DNC in August; thinks that might lead to the re-election of Trump: “I hope that students - people who are planning on demonstrating there, and I’m all for demonstrating - I hope they remember that Nixon barely beat Humphrey in 1968, and it’s very likely the sight of riots at the [DNC convention], turned some people off from Democrats. I hope people especially remember that as complicated and important as the war in Gaza is, this is an election about Trump vs. not-Trump and there is an existential choice there.”
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