Charlie Brooker’s Been Dying to Give Black Mirror’s Best Episode a Sequel

Every season, Netflix’s speculative fabrication anthology bid Black Mirror takes audiences connected a roller coaster of concepts, characters, and worlds. Despite six seasons nether its belt, creator Charlie Brooker hasn’t felt the request to dip into the sequel well–until the upcoming seventh season with different communicative astir the USS Callister, that is.

During Netflix’s Geeked Week, Brooker spoke with Collider astir wherefore helium decided to instrumentality to play four’s fan-favorite Star Trek riff. Apparently, he’s had a follow-up connected the encephalon for a while, truthful it felt earthy to proceed their exploits. However, helium admitted it was “quite hard to get each the stars aligned. [But] we emotion the characters, and the formed were truthful large and conscionable large people.” Since the occurrence near the doorway unfastened for much adventures, however could helium not instrumentality the opportunity?

The “Callister” occurrence ended with the titular crew—which included Lowry (Michaela Coel), Coel (Cristin Milioti), and Valdack (Billy Magnussen)—discovering they were integer clones of real-world radical trapped wrong a multiplayer crippled called Infinity run by the real-world mentation of their abusive skipper Daly (Jesse Plemmons). After trapping Daly successful the game, the crew’s successful a “whole caller frontier” with a monolithic “infinitely generated” beingness to explore, according to Brooker.

Along with astir of the archetypal “Callister” cast, the caller Black Mirror season volition diagnostic immoderate returning faces down the camera. The “Callister” sequel volition bring backmost co-writer Will Bridges, portion “Demon 79” co-writer Bisha K. Ali (who besides wrote for Ms. Marvel) is coming backmost to helm different episode. Collaborating with them again has been “very exciting” for Brooker, and he’s precocious connected the caller play overall. “I deliberation we’ve done it proud,” helium teased.

Black Mirror will instrumentality with caller episodes connected Netflix successful the adjacent future.

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