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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @12:29AM (#780117)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @11:24AM (#780223)

    how sad.