Charlie Brooker's satirical anthology series will return with its seventh season, featuring a new star-studded cast of Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti and Rashida Jones. Created and show run by Brooker, Black Mirror is sci-fi show, which is set in a twisted, high-tech near-future where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide. The six-episode season, which is currently in production by streaming service Netflix at its annual festival Geeked Week in Atlanta, Georgia.
“You can expect a mix of genres and styles. We've got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional," Brooker said at the event.
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com/dZcfNQHc4c “We have evolved to a place where it's kind of OG Black Mirror this season. So it's all sci-fi, techno-dystopia," he added. The cast for season seven also includes Milanka Brooks, Patsy Ferran, Lewis Gribben, Siena Kelly, Billy Magnussen, Rosy McEwen, Cristin Milioti, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jimmi Simpson and Harriet Walter.
Brooker teased that one of the six chapters from the new instalment will be a sequel to USS Callister , the Emmy-winning episode from season four. Milioti, Simpson, Magnussen and Brooks had featured in the space-ship themed episode along with Jesse Plemons and Michaela Coel. ALSO READ: ‘Black Mirror’ season 4 review: Deals more with human nature than technology “Fans of the show will recognize the cast of a certain spaceship from one of our episodes reappearing.
We’ve done a sequel for the first time in Black Mirror history. Normally, I kill off all the characters at the end of a episode, and I kept some of ’em alive. I’m growing as a human," Brooker said.
The seventh season of Black Mirror will stream on Netflix in 2025. Published - September 20, 2024 12:13 pm IST Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit English cinema / World cinema / television.
