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Brace yourselves, movie fans.

Have we got some news for you?!?

Sony Pictures has confirmed that The Social Network is getting a sequel, announcing on Friday that Aaron Sorkin will pen the screenplay and the wildly-anticipated sequel will come out on October 9, 2026.

It will be titled The Social Reckoning.

We can also now pass along the full (and awesome!) cast…

According to Deadline’s Justin Kroll, Jeremy Strong will play Mark Zuckerberg.

Oscar winner Mikey Madison will portray whistleblower Frances Haugen.

Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White will take on Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz, who broke a series of articles known as “The Facebook Files.”

These October 2021 news reports exposed the inner workings of — and numerous harms caused by — Facebook on which the film will be based.

The Social Network was released in 2010 by Sony Pictures and grossed more than $226 million worldwide. Many consider it to be the best movie thus far of the 21st century.

Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, the film won three… including Sorkin for Adapted Screenplay, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Original Score and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall for Film Editing.

The movie starred Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, along with Rooney Mara, Andrew Garfield, and Armie Hammer. It’s seriously awesome.

The story of the sequel will focus on how the company’s own reporting pointed to the negative effects the its social media was having on teens and kids, how it knew misinformation was proliferating and causing violence.

Also? How it contributed to the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021.

We can’t wait.

The Social Network Sequel: Release Date, Cast Confirmed! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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The murder of Charlie Kirk remains one of the most emotionally charged news stories in recent memory.

And as politicians, journalists, and social media users continue to try and make sense of the tragedy, some bizarre theories have spread with alarming speed.

The latest speculation involves some surprising connections between Kirk’s death and a mostly forgotten 1998 thriller starring Nicolas Cage.

Obscure Nicolas Cage film becomes trending topic thanks to Kirk conspiracy theorists

Set during a single night, Snake Eyes sees Cage playing a police detective who attends a Las Vegas boxing match featuring a heavyweight champion named Lincoln Tyler.

The main storyline involves the assassination of a defense secretary named Charles Kirkland, who is shot in the neck.

The man who was arrested for Kirk’s murder is named Tyler Robinson, and much is being made of the similarities between the names of the Snake Eyes character and the real-life tragedy that unfolded on September 10.

The film has also become the source of a number of easily disporovable rumors, including the claim that it also takes place on September 10.

But on social media these days, intriguing lies spread much more rapidly than boring truths.

So along with the name coincidences, the misinformation regarding the date has been packaged into a number of bizarre arguments, with some users claiming Snake Eyes “predicted” Kirk’s murder, and others insisting that the film is evidence of some vast conspiracy.

X users flock to ‘Snake Eyes’ conspiracy theories

“The fight in the film occurs on SEPTEMBER 10th, the same exact day as Charlie Kirk’s death! The film was shot on location at the TRUMP Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. TRUMP was a close ally of KIRK,” one X user wrote this week, adding:

“The character, Gilbert Powell, in flim was literally based on Donald Trump, according to IMDB.”

“There are NO COINCIDENCES,” another account chimed in, adding:

“The 1998 Movie ‘Snake Eyes’ with actor Nicholas Cage, the politician CHARLES KIRKLAND is shot in the neck. In the movie, the shooting happens on SEPTEMBER 10th.

“Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck, in real life on September 10th. You just can’t make this stuff up.”

Well, apparently you can make this stuff up, as the film explicitly takes place on September 19.

Thankfully, many people pointed out in their replies that the connections described in those tweets (the connections that are factually accurate, anyway) are the very definition of coincidences.

We understand the desire to make sense of a seemingly senseless tragedy.

But for the most part, conspirators are not in the habit of planting clues in movies to expose crimes they intend to commit 27 years later.

Nicolas Cage Movie ‘Snake Eyes’ at Center of Bizarre Charlie Kirk Controversy was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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