Copyright Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Billy Magnussen (Lilo & Stitch), Betty Gilpin (The Hunt), Gbenga Akinnagbe (A House of Dynamite), and Anna Lambe (True Detective: Night Country) are new additions to The Social Reckoning, Sony’s follow-up to The Social Network. Character details are under wraps. Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White lead the cast, which also includes Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, and Wunmi Mosaku. Described as a companion piece to The Social Network, the Oscar-winning 2010 drama examining Facebook’s origin story that Aaron Sorkin penned for director David Fincher, The Social Reckoning tells the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets. Sorkin is directing this time around from his own script, with Todd Black, Peter Rice, Sorkin and Stuart Besser producing. The film is slated for release in theaters on October 9, 2026. Known for work in projects like Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, New Line’s Game Night, and Bond film No Time to Die, Magnussen was most recently seen in Disney’s live-action Lilo & Stitch — one of the highest-grossing films of the year, exceeding $1 billion in worldwide grosses — and Sam Mendes and Armando Iannucci’s series The Franchise. Soon to be seen in AMC’s Silicon Valley series The Audacity, he is repped by UTA, Anonymous Content and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Gilpin is known for Netflix’s GLOW, for which she received three Emmy nominations, and the Craig Zobel film The Hunt, for which she won a Critics Choice Super Award. She’s also known for her performances in the series Mrs. Davis, Three Women, American Primeval, and Nurse Jackie. Up next, she will be seen in the limited Netflix series Death by Lightning opposite Michael Shannon. She also co-stars in the Netflix feature Office Romance, opposite Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein. She is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Known for roles on HBO’s The Wire and The Deuce, Akinnagbe can currently be seen in Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite and the FX series The Old Man and will next be seen on Chicago Med. He is repped by IAG, Cognition and Curtis Brown. Lambe leads the Netflix/CBC/APTN series North of North and can also be seen in HBO’s True Detective: Night Country. Most recently, she shot a supporting role opposite Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons in Paramount’s Heart of the Beast, directed by David Ayer. She is repped by Integral Artists, LBI Entertainment and Yorn Levine.
