‘The Social Reckoning’ Star Billy Magnussen Confirms the Movie Is Not a True Sequel to ‘The Social Community’

A large turnout of celebrities and filmmakers donned their warmest garb and hit the streets of Park Metropolis, Utah, for the town’s ultimate Sundance Movie Pageant earlier than transferring to Boulder, Colorado. Whereas selling his upcoming tv sequence, The Audacity, Billy Magnussen (Lilo & Stitch) stopped by Collider’s media studio on the Arby’s Cinema Heart, the place he shared thrilling teases for the brand new present. Speaking with our personal Steve WeintraubMagnussen additionally dropped some fascinating tidbits about Aaron Sorkin‘s upcoming sequel to The Social Communitywhich earned the writer-director an Academy Award for Greatest Tailored Screenplay.

Sorkin’s sequel, titled The Social Reckoningstars Magnussen alongside Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere), Academy Award winner Mikey Madison (Anora), Academy Award nominee Jeremy Sturdy (The Apprentice), and Betty Gilpin (The Tomorrow Struggle). This 16-year follow-up to The Social Communityin line with Magnussen, nonetheless, is “its personal story,” that follows a younger Fb engineer, Frances Haugen (Madison), who enlists the assistance of Wall Road Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (White) to blow the whistle on Mark Zuckerberg (Sturdy) and the social community’s most guarded secrets and techniques.

“Once more, you’re working with Sorkin, the most effective writers. That is everybody’s benchmark is Sorkin… The Social Reckoning is an superior, superior film. I am unable to actually say a lot, however after all, it is a good film.”

Sorkin, who’s greatest identified and acclaimed for his mastery of whip-smart dialogue, is trying to recapture lightning in a bottle, and from the sounds of it, The Social Reckoningwith its stacked solid, could obtain simply that. Magnussen goes on to debate the writer-director on set and shares an fascinating trade that occurred between the 2, the place Sorkin lived as much as his popularity.

“To begin with, I wish to say I beloved working with Aaron Sorkin. I feel he is a form coronary heart, an exquisite man. He actually writes for actors, the place you are like, ‘Oh, I simply must say his traces and it form of works.’ Truly, the one observe I bought for saying one in every of his traces was like, ‘It is humorous, I write for actors to behave. There is a query mark on the finish of the sentence.’ I used to be like, “Wait, so that you’re saying I did not say it as a query?’ He is like, ‘Yeah.’ I used to be like, ‘Okay, I am going to try this, Aaron.’ He was that particular.”

Magnussen laughs in regards to the remark, clarifying, “But it surely would not hassle me. That is your job. He was an superior, superior man.”

The Social Reckoning is slated to launch in October from Sony Footage. Take a look at the complete interview from Sundance 2026 under.

‘The Audacity’ Is So Good, Billy Magnussen “Hunted This Job”

“It’s like a fruits of my 20 years on this trade.”

This April, from Emmy Award-winner Jonathan Glatzer (Succession, Breaking Unhealthy) (who Magnussen calls “one of the vital good folks I’ve ever labored with”), in his debut as sequence creator, comes AMC and AMC+’s new drama thriller, The Audacity. The eight-episode sequence is ready to premiere on April 12 and explores the “well-off elites” of Silicon Valley and their quest to harness the best energy of the trendy day: expertise.

Within the present, Magnussen performs a gutsy data-mining CEO, Duncan Park, who units his sights on turning into a tech titan amongst the underworld of bored billionaires, psychiatrist gurus, A.I. labs, and tech bros, the place “their errors have an effect on everybody.”

“Our present tackles these massive, massive points, these massive worlds, however then brings it again to humanity, these folks which are defining a technology. And so they’re people, too.”

Magnussen goes on to say:

“It is the folks which are constructing that world and the unhingedness of what they’re… These are tech execs in Silicon Valley making massive enterprise, attempting to create the world that is round us via tech and merging corporations, seeing for those who get an acquisition from another person. It is tens of millions of {dollars} on the road — $1 billion on the road — so these excessive stakes for these characters are absurd, and the audacity that they might put themselves within the craziest conditions to shut a deal. You will see if you watch the present if it is a profitable second or failure.”

Along with Magnussen, The Audacity stars Zach Galifianakis (Lilo & Sew) as Carl Bardolph, Sarah Goldberg (Barry) as Dr. JoAnne Felder, Lucy Punch (Animal Management) as Lili Park-Hoffsteader, Rob Corddry (Bookie) as Tom Ruffage, Simon Helberg (The Massive Bang Concept) as Martin Phister, with Randall Park (WandaVision) visitor starring as Gabe, the “qualm-free CFO of a knowledge mining operation.”

Watch the complete interview within the video above for extra on what to anticipate popping out of Magnussen’s manufacturing firm, HappyBad Bungalow, his tease for Disney’s live-action sequel to Lilo & Sewand extra.

• 00:32 – Celebrating the Closing Sundance in Park Metropolis

• 02:17 – Billy Magnussen “Hunted” Down The Audacity

• 04:12 – The Audacity Offers in Billion-Greenback Stakes

• 04:58 – Will The Audacity Have A number of Seasons?

• 05:38 – Billy Magnussen Discovered What To not Do on The Audacity

• 07:00 – The Audacity Brings the Star Energy

• 08:06 – Billy Magnussen’s Star Wars Second Disappoints

• 09:55 – Billy Magnussen Shares His Favourite Robert Redford Roles

• 10:49 – Will He Return for Lilo & Sew 2?

• 11:27 – What’s Up Subsequent From HappyBad Bungalow?

• 13:53 – Billy Magnussen Teases The Social Community Sequel

• 16:26 – Billy Magnusses Teases His Initiatives within the Works

• 17:06 – Billy Magnussen Shares Favourite Motion pictures from Iconic Administrators

The Audacity premieres on AMC and AMC+ on April 12, with new episodes dropping each Sunday. You should definitely test again with Collider for extra thrilling information coming from the Sundance Movie Pageant 2026.

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