Before Jesse Eisenberg declined to step back into the world of Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg for Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” the director admitted “it never occurred” to him that the actor wouldn’t be on board with his 2026 follow-up to 2010’s “The Social Network,” in which Eisenberg portrayed the young tech billionaire.
\n\nSpeaking with Entertainment Weekly, Sorkin recounted that he was “just a couple of pages from being done” with the script for the new film when he ran into Eisenberg at a party, “and said, ‘I’m gonna be sending you something in a couple of weeks.’” The actor “smiled and nodded, and I sent it to him,” said Sorkin. “It never occurred to me that he wouldn’t wanna do it.”
\n\nSorkin continued, explaining he tried to convince the “A Real Pain” actor, but he didn’t budge.
\n\n“This is the only time I’ve written myself an outline. I don’t do it for the movies, but I did it for my conversations with Jesse,” he said. “It was arguments for why he should do it. They included, ‘We already know you’re gonna be great because you were already once.’ You know, ‘Here are the great moments that you’re gonna get…
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