The Social Network (2010) dramatized the founding of Facebook, framing the rise of one of the youngest billionaires in history as a story of ambition, betrayal, and the lawsuits left in its wake. Talky, fast, and pointed, it became a defining portrait of Silicon Valley's early hubris.
The follow-up, The Social Reckoning (2026), turns the lens on the aftermath, dramatizing a whistleblower and a journalist exposing the network's guarded secrets. It is a film-only pairing that brackets the same company at two moments: the giddy creation and the harder reckoning. The throughline is the cost of the thing being built, and who pays it once the platform is running the world.
The The Social Network franchise spans 2 movies in the CrossBinge catalog.