Jeremy Strong is a frontrunner to play META CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Network Part II.

Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White are also being eyed for roles in the sequel.

Sorkin’s screenplay for the sequel explores the story behind the Wall Street Journal‘s The Facebook Files by Jeff Horowitz, an explosive series of articles published in October 2021 that exposed the inner workings of — and multiple harms caused by — Facebook. 

The Social Network was directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It portrays the founding of Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. The film was a success both commercially and critically, grossing over $224 million and garnering several Academy Award nominations, one of which Sorkin won for Best Adapted Screenplay.