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From Zuck to Musk: Big Tech’s Scandals and Scammers Are Coming to the Big Screen

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From Zuck to Musk: Big Tech’s Scandals and Scammers Are Coming to the Big Screen

Here are the movies to keep an "AI" on through the rest of the year.

Hollywood is unleashing a handful of movies this fall, pulling the curtain back to shine a light on some of the big names in tech: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk; Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes; and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Plenty of movies have tackled themes of techno-pessimism and dug into the deep well of science fiction. Remember 2001: A Space Odyssey? Blade Runner? M3GAN? But apocalyptic threats and human-versus-machine scenarios feel much more prescient in 2026.

What’s changed is that there seems to be an appetite for Big Tech to get its comeuppance. The movies being released are real stories about the scandals and scammers affecting our daily lives.

The Social Reckoning continues the story Aaron Sorkin began with the 2010 film The Social Network about Facebook. The Oscar and Emmy-winning screenwriter stepped behind the camera to helm the movie, which he once again wrote.

The Social Reckoning highlights the societal damage caused by Zuckerberg’s social media empire. Based on thousands of leaked documents from former Facebook engineer Frances Haugen, the movie draws inspiration from the 2021 Wall Street Journal article The Facebook Files, which documents the whistleblower’s actions and the subsequent fallout.

Succession star Jeremy Strong now plays Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg played the bright-eyed college student 16 years ago). The film also stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Billy Magnussen, Bill Burr and Betty Gilpin.



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