Claire Foy to play Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in ‘Doomsday Machine’ sequence

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: British star Claire Foy will play the function of prime Facebook govt Sheryl Sandberg within the upcoming scripted sequence “Doomsday Machine”. The present is predicated on Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s New York Times bestselling ebook “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination”.

It will give attention to the connection between the social media big’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and Sandberg, who function the corporate’s chief working officer (COO), in addition to the obstacles Facebook has confronted on its relentless quest for progress.

The drama sequence, which comes from Anonymous Content and Wiip, is being written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and writer Ayad Akhtar, based on The Hollywood Reporter. The present has roped in a number of journalists to function consultants to make sure the plot’s accuracy.

The goal behind the sequence is to place the viewers within the footwear of Sandberg and Zuckerberg as they form the way in which billions of individuals talk and eat data. “Doomsday Machine” will monitor the previous 5 years on the social media big, starting with disinformation surrounding the 2016 election and main as much as current revelations in The Wall Street Journal and the Times about some customers being allowed to skirt the platform’s guidelines.

It will probably be produced by Anonymous Content’s AC Studios and Wiip. Foy is finest recognized for enjoying Queen Elizabeth II in two seasons of Netflix sequence “The Crown”. She has additionally featured in movies akin to “First Man”, “Unsane” and “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”.