Andrew Garfield Eyes a Comeback in The Social Network Sequel

If you were holding out hope for Andrew Garfield to reprise Eduardo Saverin in Aaron Sorkin's new Facebook movie, go ahead and let that go. He shut it down with a smile and a shrug.

"No, no. Eduardo is in Singapore having a good time."

That was Garfield at the premiere of After the Hunt at the New York Festival, when asked if he was coming back for Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network. For context: the real Saverin settled with Facebook years ago, renounced his U.S. citizenship, and relocated to Singapore. Garfield said he is excited to see the new film, though.

So what is this new one exactly?

Sorkin is writing and directing The Social Reckoning, which he describes as a companion piece to The Social Network rather than a straight sequel. Translation: same universe, different chapter. And yes, there are some big shifts behind and in front of the camera — David Fincher isn’t directing this time, and even Mark Zuckerberg has been recast.

• Title: The Social Reckoning
• Release date: October 9, 2026 (theatrical)
• Writer-director: Aaron Sorkin
• Mark Zuckerberg: Jeremy Strong (Succession), replacing Jesse Eisenberg
• Frances Haugen: Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Jeff Horwitz: Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) as the Wall Street Journal reporter who helped bring the story forward
• Also appearing: Bill Burr (reported)
• Premise: A young Facebook engineer, Frances Haugen, teams with WSJ reporter Jeff Horwitz to expose the company’s most closely guarded secrets — a path Sorkin frames as a dangerous, whistleblowing journey.
• Scope and themes: The film zeroes in on Facebook’s own internal research about harm to teens and kids, its awareness of misinformation fueling real-world violence, and how the platform fed into the January 6, 2021 insurrection — and it widens out to the company’s impact on preteens and countries far beyond the U.S.

If that lineup feels like a curveball — Jeremy Strong as Zuck, Sorkin behind the camera — you’re not imagining it. It’s a real inside-baseball pivot from the Fincher/Eisenberg dynamic of the original.

Why Garfield sitting this one out makes sense

Given where Saverin ended up and what this new story covers, it tracks that Eduardo isn’t central to the plot. Garfield’s 'he’s in Singapore having a good time' line is a neat way of saying: this chapter is about the whistleblower era, not the dorm-room origin story.

Meanwhile: Garfield’s current movie

Garfield is out promoting Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, where he stars alongside Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri. The film follows a college professor forced to confront her own buried past after a colleague is accused of a serious offense. Early chatter labels it flawed but bravely nuanced, with powerhouse performances. It hits theaters on October 10.