Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ to Recreate January 6

Sony Pictures has dated “The Social Reckoning” to hit theaters on October 9, 2026. It’s bound to become a hot-button movie next fall, but will it be any good?

I don’t think many of the trades realize this, but Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning will be as much about January 6 as it will be about Facebook. “There’s no escaping that. The hints have been all over.”

Yeah, incoming discourse on this one will be totally sane.

Back in April 2024, before we knew anything about Social Reckoning, Puck’s Matthew Belloni reported that Sorkin was writing a movie about “the capitol protests of January 6, 2021 in Washington DC.”

Sorkin’s quasi-sequel to The Social Network was said to follow “the rise of the online misinformation-for-profit that may have led to January 6.” One quote that caught my attention had Sorkin not hiding his intentions:

I blame Facebook for January 6

Once the project was announced, Deadline’s sources “stressed that it wouldn’t be a ‘January 6 movie’” but then countered the claim by saying it was just that.

Since its release, Sorkin has noted on several occasions his interest in doing a follow-up, but he couldn’t find the right angle. Following the events of January 6, 2020, when the U.S. Capitol was attacked, Sorkin found new inspiration saying in an interview last year that he believed Facebook played a part.

Now that ‘Social Reckoning’ has started production in Vancouver, the city’s downtown area has been turned into Washington, DC, most notably the Capitol. Yes, Sorkin is reenacting that infamous day with large groups of masked men, some wearing Carhartt and tactical gear while carrying American flags, roaming around the Vancouver set.

Vulture reports an innumerable amount of “MAGA hats, camo, and American flags” spread throughout the area.

Sony Pictures describes the upcoming film, which Aaron Sorkin is both writing and directing, as a “companion piece” to 2010’s The Social Network. Jeremy Strong will step into the role of Mark Zuckerberg, previously played by Jesse Eisenberg, but the story will focus on Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison), the whistleblower whose leaks to The Wall Street Journal exposed numerous issues at Facebook. It’s worth noting that Haugen has argued that “Facebook played a role in enabling the events of January 6.”

Can someone please contact Jared Leto to play the Shaman? He’d be back in our good graces if he accepted this important role.