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posted by takyon on Sunday December 30 2018, @08:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-your-own-article dept.

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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).

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

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.

Black Mirror.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @11:13AM (#779938)

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:38PM (#779987) Journal

    Do they have Fatty Arbuckle?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @09:30PM (#780069)

      apparently not for streaming.
      but this is amazon.de that I can checkout, maybe it's different on amazon.com