Andrew Garfield Not to Return for "The Social Network 2"

Andrew Garfield won’t be reprising his role as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to 2010’s “The Social Network,” titled “The Social Reckoning”.

The Oscar-nominated actor, who broke out with his role in “The Social Network” in 2010, was asked by IndieWire at the New York Film Festival if he would appear in the sequel. “No, no,” Garfield said, adding: “Eduardo is in Singapore having a good time.”

After ending on bad terms with his fellow Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (a rift immortalized on film by Garfield’s scene-stealing “f--k you flip flops” monologue), Saverin emigrated to Singapore in 2009 and caused controversy when he renounced his U.S. citizenship two years later. 

Though some speculated Saverin made the move to avoid paying taxes, he denied the claim and said it was purely due to his “interest in living and working in Singapore.” 

In 2015, he co-founded the venture capital firm B Capital and is currently the richest person in Singapore.

The Sony Pictures film will star Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Bill Burr and Jeremy Strong, who is taking the reins from Jesse Eisenberg to play Zuckerberg.

Written and directed by Sorkin, “The Social Reckoning” is described as a companion piece to “The Social Network” and takes place two decades after the founding of the platform. 

It will tell the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network’s most guarded secrets.

While Garfield won’t be returning to the world of Facebook, he’s set to revisit the tech world in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming “Artificial,” in which he’s reportedly playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 

Garfield recently collaborated with Guadagnino on the drama “After the Hunt” alongside Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri, which just screened at the New York Film Festival after premiering at Venice.

“The Social Reckoning” is set to hit theaters on October 9, 2026.