Mark Zuckerberg tries, fails to nod like a human being in the full trailer for The Social Reckoning

Elsewhere in the trailer, Sorkin’s influences for his Social Network follow-up come into better focus, as it becomes clear we’re moving from the loose biopic structure of the original movie into something more akin to a political and journalistic thriller. That’s most obvious in the interactions between Jeremy Allen White’s reporter and his whistleblower source inside Facebook, played by Mikey Madison; the constant push for more information, and the ominous promises of protection he offers her, make it clear we’ve moved out of “seriocomic portrayal of nerds with too much money and power” territory into something a lot darker. (Including references to Madison’s character being motivated by watching a friend get politically radicalized by too much time on Facebook.) It’s not that there’s no humor on display here, just that it’s of the darkest sort—as when Bill Burr pops up to tell Zuckerberg to his face that he’s become akin to crossing guard blithely allowing traffic to plow into a bunch of schoolchildren. 

The Social Reckoning slams into theaters on October 9.