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Jesse Eisenberg is leaving his turn as Mark Zuckerberg in the past.<\/p>\n
Eisenberg, who played the Facebook CEO in the David Fincher-directed film The Social Network<\/a>, surprised fans when it was reported in June that a sequel was in the works<\/a>, but Eisenberg wasn\u2019t coming back to play its lead.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n During a Thursday appearance on the Today show, the Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t<\/a> star was asked why he wouldn\u2019t return for the second film, The Social Reckoning. \u201cListen, for reasons that have nothing to do with how amazing that movie will be, really, truthfully,\u201d Eisenberg said. \u201cBut when you play a character, you feel, at some point, you\u2019ve grown into something else.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked if he\u2019s outgrown the character, the actor responded, \u201cYeah, something. But it\u2019s a really wonderful movie. I\u2019m friends with Aaron Sorkin who wrote and is directing this movie, and all of the reasons that I am not in it are completely unrelated to how brilliant it will be.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2010 film scored eight Oscar nominations and won three, including adapted screenplay for Sorkin. The film grossed $226 million globally. Its cast included Eisenberg\u2019s Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield\u2019s Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake\u2019s Sean Parker and Armie Hammer as the Winklevoss twins.<\/p>\n In the upcoming sequel \u2014 which has Aaron Sorkin, writer of the first film, directing and writing for Sony \u2014 Jeremy Strong will play Zuckerberg. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the great scripts I\u2019ve ever read. It speaks to our time, it touches the third rail of everything happening in our world,\u201d Strong told <\/a>The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cIt\u2019s a great character \u2014 fascinating, complex \u2014 and I\u2019m approaching it with great care and empathy and objectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n The Succession actor also noted that he hasn\u2019t spoken to Eisenberg about taking over his role. \u201cI think that has nothing to do with what I\u2019m going to do,\u201d Strong told THR.<\/p>\n In addition to Strong, Mikey Madison,\u00a0Jeremy Allen White and\u00a0Bill Burr are among its cast<\/a>. The film takes place 17 years after the original ended. It follows a young Facebook engineer, Frances Haugen (Madison), and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (White), who work together to spotlight the secrets of the social network.<\/p>\n The Social Reckoning will release in theaters over Columbus Day weekend next year.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesse Eisenberg is leaving his turn as Mark Zuckerberg in the past. 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