Nathan Fielder may have already won Hollywood’s big parade of prestige movies based on tech founders

It’s never been a better—or worse—to be a tech founder as Hollywood turns it lens on the bizarre and often controversy-filled lives of Silicon Valley leaders. But among the sea of film projects diving deep into the topic of tech CEOs, one appears to be quickly taking the crown. Zuck in a rut First came Aaron Sorkin’s A-lister-filled continuation of The Social Network, a 2010 highly acclaimed biographical drama of the birth of Facebook. More than a decade later, the new film, The Social Reckoning, serves as a check-in with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and his social media tech empire, with performances from Jeremy Strong (as Zuckerberg), Jeremy Allen White, and Mikey Madison. But despite the famous cast, Sorkin’s reputation, and a genuine hype for the movie, users and critics alike were not especially impressed. The Guardian called it “strangely dated and incomplete,” while The Atlantic referred to it as “disappointingly flat and gray.” Jeremy Allen White and Mikey Madison in The Social Reckoning [Photo: Leah Gallo/Sony Pictures Entertainment] Average audience viewers weren’t necessarily kinder. One user on Letterboxd wrote, “perhaps one of the most atrocious scripts written by someone s…

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