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Jesse Eisenberg will star in and direct a film version of Careless People, based on the bestselling book Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams, who has been under a gag order that has prevented her from promoting the scathing memoir about her time with the company.
Eisenberg is reprising his role as Facebook (now Meta) founder Mark Zuckerberg, whom he played in David Fincher's film The Social Network (2010). Emma Stone has expressed interest in the role of Sheryl Sandberg. Stone's production company Fruit Tree, which produced Eisenberg's recent film A Real Pain, is on board to produce Careless People.
Despite Wynn-Williams's restricted ability to publicize her latest work, which Meta has described as a "false and defamatory book [that] should never have been published," the memoir has risen quickly on bestseller lists. Meta's legal filing prohibits the author from making "disparaging" comments about the company where she worked as the director of global public policy, but there is no prohibition on adapting her work for the big screen. She will co-write the screenplay with Eisenberg.