When it was announced that Aaron Sorkin would write and direct the officially-titled The Social Reckoning, a follow-up to 2010’s The Social Network, most, if not everyone assumed Jesse Eisenberg would reprise Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. However, it was later confirmed that Succession’s Jeremy Strong will play Zuckerberg instead in this 2026 movie release. So why is Eisenberg sitting The Social Reckoning out? He explained his reasoning, but not before hilariously referencing the recent Louvre heist.
This topic came up when he was visiting TODAY to promote Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, his third outing as Four Horsemen leader Danny Atlas, ahead of its release next month on the 2025 movies schedule. When anchor Craig Melvin inquired about if reports were true about Eisenberg passing on The Social Reckoning, the now-former Mark Zuckerberg actor responded:
