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Netflix drops the first trailer for 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
Netflix is time-traveling back to the eighties in the first trailer for its upcoming Black Mirror movie, Bandersnatch. Fans have been piecing together clues from a teaser and now we're getting our first look at the flick. The official synopsis states the film is set in 1984 andfollows "a young programmer who begins to question reality as he adapts a sprawling fantasy novel into a video game and soon faces a mind-mangling challenge." Directed by Black Mirror alum David Slade, the creepy film stars Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Will Poulter (The Revanant) and Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing).
In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) who adapts a fantasy novel into a video game in 1984. Other characters include Mohan Thakur (Asim Chaudhry) and Colin Ritman (Will Poulter), who work at a video game company, Butler's father, Peter (Craig Parkinson) and Butler's therapist, Dr. Haynes (Alice Lowe). The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for bankruptcy. A piece of horror and science fiction, Bandersnatch incorporates meta-commentary and rumination on free will.
Brooker and executive producer Annabel Jones were approached by Netflix about making an interactive film in May 2017, during which time Netflix had several interactive projects for children underway. Difficulty in writing the highly non-linear script led to the creation of a bespoke Branch Manager for Netflix, and the unique nature of the content required adaptations in the platform's use of cache memory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @10:40AM (4 children)
C'mon guys, just add normal network TV shows to Netflix and be done with it.
What's the hold up?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:13AM (2 children)
everybody who makes film/series/animations figured out they can do the streaming bit by themselves, so they're no longer selling to netflix.
netflix, instead of focusing on a large collection of old stuff the "makers" don't bother streaming themselves, decided they want to become makers.
amazon, who IS getting a large collection of old stuff, some of which you can see with prime, some of which you can pay for, is actually winning in the long run. they have buster keaton.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
Do they have Fatty Arbuckle?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:30PM
apparently not for streaming.
but this is amazon.de that I can checkout, maybe it's different on amazon.com
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:28AM
You seem to be oblivious to the cost of maintaining a whole news department.
You are writing a scenario for a movie at most a few times. Lying to the audience day-in-day-out in a Fauxnews style is at least one order of magnitude harder.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Sunday December 30 2018, @01:21PM (1 child)
Watched it yesterday evening. It was OK, even interesting at times but nothing exceptional.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday December 30 2018, @02:51PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday December 30 2018, @03:28PM (4 children)
So how do you pirate choose-your-own-adventure content? Package it up with DVD menus? How about for streaming sites?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @03:43PM
Make a visual novel out of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @12:10AM (2 children)
Currently there is a pirated copy going around that is just the default choices.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)
Which is probably far better and more relaxing that choosing shit in the middle of the show. My son got a copy of Minecraft Story Mode (basically a choose-your-own adventure hi-res rendered animation) for his birthday a few years ago and he ended up watching it mostly on Youtube. He actually liked the choices and commentary that the 'youtuber' was making. Doing it himself meant sitting in a room alone and having to restart sections when he 'died'. I never saw him go back and repeat a section to see what would have happened if he'd chosen differently. But, I did see him watch a couple of 'youtubers' playing it, after which he wouldn't bother playing that 'chapter' in the purchased copy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:24AM
how sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:56AM
... aaah, Bandersnatch, Psyclapse and the fall of Imagine. A BBC film crew thought they were making a documentary about a successful games company; instead they ended up filming its spectacular failure. http://www.crashonline.org.uk/12/imagine.htm [crashonline.org.uk]
The documentary itself is on YouTube. Search "The Rise and Fall of Imagine Software". Watch it. Then ask yourself if the games industry has learned anything in the intervening 34 years.
(Score: 1) by EEMac on Monday December 31 2018, @03:21PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @08:29PM
the web. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/netflix [defectivebydesign.org]