What if Artificial by Luca Guadagnino was the “real” sequel to The Social Network?

While The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s new film on Facebook, gets off to a very timid start at the American box office, the Sam Altman biopic by Luca Guadagnino is reaping praise. To the point of already being considered the true heir of David Fincher’s classic.

Mark Zuckerberg is no longer popular.

A sign of changing times, Facebook stories seem to be much less exciting than in the early 2010s. The Social Reckoning crashed at the American box office, with less than $6 million in revenue for its first weekend. This is very low for such an anticipated film, with a budget estimated at $30 million and which approached the fall with great ambitions. Fifteen years later The Social Networkthe film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin will clearly not reproduce the little miracle of David Fincher’s classic.

In any case, the studio was careful to clarify that it was not really a direct sequel. Jeremy Strong also replaces Jesse Eisenberg in the role of the tech mogul, for a new incarnation of Mark Zuckerberg…..