The Social Network - 15 years later!
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jack Howard and Mark Kermode talk about The Social Network – written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher – and the upcoming sequel, The Social Reckoning, scheduled for release on 9 October 2026.
Written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, it will be a companion piece to the original film and will focus on the fallout from The Facebook Files, the 2021 investigation into Facebook's practices. The new movie will feature a different cast, with Jeremy Strong playing Mark Zuckerberg, Mikey Madison as former engineer. Frances Haugen and Jeremy Allen White as Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kerbaud. Thanks, downloading this Kermod on film podcast. Or if you're watching us on YouTube, thank you for watching. I'm joined by Jack Howard. |
| 0:07.2 | Hello, it has been 15 years since the social network came out. Wow. I know. Where does the time go? |
| 0:15.8 | So we're going to be discussing the movie itself. We're also going to be talking about the sequel that is going to be coming out next year, which is titled The Social Reckoning, and how you feel about the social |
| 0:25.9 | network now that everything that's happened with Facebook has happened. And anything else to add? |
| 0:30.9 | No, it's an interesting conversation. We've had the conversation already. That's why we know it's |
| 0:34.2 | an interesting conversation. Yes. My first question for you is, does 15 years feel like a long time for a movie to have come out to you? |
| 0:44.3 | Well, when you said to me, it's the 15th anniversary of Social Network. |
| 0:48.3 | I was like, no, really? |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.3 | But this is happening all the time at the moment. |
| 0:53.3 | It's like because it's the 50th anniversary of every film I saw as a child. |
| 0:58.2 | Right, right, right. |
| 0:58.8 | It's just like, wow, where does it all go? |
| 1:01.7 | So 15 years feels both like, I can't believe it's been 15 years, |
| 1:06.0 | but it also feels like the blink of an eye. |
| 1:08.1 | I tend to think of anything this side of the 21st century, |
| 1:13.5 | in the 21st century, as recent. That's the way it works. And I think also because the social |
| 1:18.3 | network and anything from that kind of era actually still feels like the fact that, you know, |
| 1:23.2 | inception came out the same year. They still feel incredibly modern. Oh yeah, they were. |
| 1:26.7 | It was the same year. Wow. So what modern. Oh, yeah, they were. It was the same year. |
| 1:27.9 | Wow. |
| 1:29.4 | So what else was around? |
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