"I'm asking you to take a leap of faith with me." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for "interactive" romantic comedy from Netflix titled Choose Love. This is obviously exactly what you'd expect them to make one day - a love story where a young woman has to choose between three different men, but this time the viewer gets to pick in an "interactive" experience. Netflix has been testing this ever since the Bandersnatch episode of "Black Mirror". Cami Conway has it all, the perfect job and boyfriend but she feels that something is missing, and that feeling begins to grow when she meets the musician Rex, and an old love returns to her life. What she chooses depends wholly on you, the viewer. But be careful! Things don’t always play out like you think! Of course, there's scripted endings based on each one. The movie stars Laura Marano,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Updated, 3:05 Pm: Netflix has settled a lawsuit over its stand-alone interactive movie Black Mirror Bandersnatch that was filed the publisher of the popular kids book series Choose Your Own Adventure. The suit alleged similarities found in the film and the books.
Read details of the case below.
Judge William Sessions III of U.S. District Court in Vermont said the parties agreed to the deal on Monday with one caveat: His February ruling denying Netflix’s motion to dismiss the case must be vacated, to which he agreed.
Reached by Deadline, the streamer declined comment on the settlement.
Previously, May 2019: Netflix has hit back at a lawsuit from the publisher of the popular Choose Your Own Adventure kids book series, which sued the streaming giant over what it claims are similarities found in Netlfix’s Black Mirror stand-alone interactive movie Bandersnatch.
The original civil suit, filed in federal district court in Vermont,...
Read details of the case below.
Judge William Sessions III of U.S. District Court in Vermont said the parties agreed to the deal on Monday with one caveat: His February ruling denying Netflix’s motion to dismiss the case must be vacated, to which he agreed.
Reached by Deadline, the streamer declined comment on the settlement.
Previously, May 2019: Netflix has hit back at a lawsuit from the publisher of the popular Choose Your Own Adventure kids book series, which sued the streaming giant over what it claims are similarities found in Netlfix’s Black Mirror stand-alone interactive movie Bandersnatch.
The original civil suit, filed in federal district court in Vermont,...
- 11/24/2020
- by Patrick Hipes and Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
“Never count out an oppressed population” and “never count out a played-out genre” are just two of the notions that stayed with me after watching “Mangrove,” one of a five-part series of period films by Steve McQueen about London’s West Indian community.
It’s a movie about a real-life injustice followed by a courtroom drama, and if a long history of hacky biopics and feel-good activist cinema made you think this kind of story was beyond telling on film with power or efficacy, McQueen proves that there’s still a way to do it right. The tale of the Mangrove Nine was relevant in the late 1960s and early 1970s when it actually happened, it was relevant when McQueen and Alastair Siddons (“Tomb Raider” 2018) sat down to write about it, and it’s relevant today, tomorrow, and in the future, as unchecked police brutality continues to rain down on communities of color.
It’s a movie about a real-life injustice followed by a courtroom drama, and if a long history of hacky biopics and feel-good activist cinema made you think this kind of story was beyond telling on film with power or efficacy, McQueen proves that there’s still a way to do it right. The tale of the Mangrove Nine was relevant in the late 1960s and early 1970s when it actually happened, it was relevant when McQueen and Alastair Siddons (“Tomb Raider” 2018) sat down to write about it, and it’s relevant today, tomorrow, and in the future, as unchecked police brutality continues to rain down on communities of color.
- 9/25/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Will Poulter will not be appearing in Amazon’s upcoming “Lord of the Rings” series after all, Variety has learned exclusively.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, scheduling conflicts will prevent the “Bandersnatch” and “Midsommar” actor from joining the show based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Variety had exclusively reported on Poulter’s involvement with the series back in September. The exact nature of the role Poulter was to play remains a mystery, but the search for a replacement is now underway. Other actors reportedly attached to star in the series are Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Maxim Baldry, and Ema Horvath.
The “Lord of the Rings” series is being developed by the writing team of Jd Payne and Patrick McKay. In addition, “Game of Thrones” alum Bryan Cogman has signed on as a consulting producer on the project with J.A. Bayona set to direct multiple episodes.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, scheduling conflicts will prevent the “Bandersnatch” and “Midsommar” actor from joining the show based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Variety had exclusively reported on Poulter’s involvement with the series back in September. The exact nature of the role Poulter was to play remains a mystery, but the search for a replacement is now underway. Other actors reportedly attached to star in the series are Markella Kavenagh, Joseph Mawle, Maxim Baldry, and Ema Horvath.
The “Lord of the Rings” series is being developed by the writing team of Jd Payne and Patrick McKay. In addition, “Game of Thrones” alum Bryan Cogman has signed on as a consulting producer on the project with J.A. Bayona set to direct multiple episodes.
- 12/12/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The 2019 Emmy Awards took place last night, and there were a lot of fan-favorite shows that won big! I was personally very happy to see HBO’s Chernobyl win Outstanding Limited Series along with the two other awards it took home. It was also awesome to see Bill Hader win for Outstanding Comedy Actor for his role in Barry. That is certainly a deserved win as he’s awesome in that series!
Regardless of what fans thought about the ending of Game of Thrones, the series did win Outstanding Drama Series. I imagine it won for everything that it accomplished as a whole. Peter Dinklage also won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series again, which is great!
Then there’s the Amazon series Fleabag, which took home four awards including Outstanding Comedy Series. I’ve never watched the show, but plan to start watching it soon.
Below you’ll...
Regardless of what fans thought about the ending of Game of Thrones, the series did win Outstanding Drama Series. I imagine it won for everything that it accomplished as a whole. Peter Dinklage also won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series again, which is great!
Then there’s the Amazon series Fleabag, which took home four awards including Outstanding Comedy Series. I’ve never watched the show, but plan to start watching it soon.
Below you’ll...
- 9/23/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It was the Primetime Emmy Awards, and it was a night of surprises—like Fleabag‘s win for Best Comedy Series, and the total shutout for perennial favorite Veep—and expected wins, like Game of Thrones taking Best Drama Series, and love for Saturday Night Live resulting in two trophies. John Oliver also doubled up, winning Variety Talk Series as well as Writing. In the Limited Series race, Chernobyl prevailed, taking three trophies including the top prize.
Perhaps the most drama, of course, came from the ever-evolving battle between the vanguard of prestige cable, HBO, and the upstart streamer fast becoming the new establishment, Netflix. Coming into tonight, the two were nearly neck-a-neck with Creative Arts wins, but HBO, which had a narrow advantage, cemented its lead with 34 wins to Netflix’s 27. It seemed like a two-horse race at the start of the evening, but the wins by Fleabag put...
Perhaps the most drama, of course, came from the ever-evolving battle between the vanguard of prestige cable, HBO, and the upstart streamer fast becoming the new establishment, Netflix. Coming into tonight, the two were nearly neck-a-neck with Creative Arts wins, but HBO, which had a narrow advantage, cemented its lead with 34 wins to Netflix’s 27. It seemed like a two-horse race at the start of the evening, but the wins by Fleabag put...
- 9/23/2019
- by Erik Pedersen and Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
“Black Mirror” Season 5 finally arrived this week, contributing a trio of new installments to the tech-centric anthology series: Miley Cyrus’ “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too,” the Andrew Scott-starring “Smithereens,” and the Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led “Striking Vipers.”
Yes, there are just three.
Now, to those of you complaining about that tiny episode count, series creator Charlie Brooker told TheWrap you people “have no sense of history,” seeing as the first two seasons of “Black Mirror” were also just three-episodes long, too. (Seasons 3 and 4 had six episodes each.)
Ok, Ok, he was joking, but there are a couple of real reasons behind their decision to shorten the fifth season.
Also Read: Here Are All the Ways 'Black Mirror' Season 5 Connects to the Rest of the Show's Universe
“One was that, originally, ‘Bandersnatch’ was actually part of Season 5,” Brooker told TheWrap. “So we shot ‘Striking Vipers...
Yes, there are just three.
Now, to those of you complaining about that tiny episode count, series creator Charlie Brooker told TheWrap you people “have no sense of history,” seeing as the first two seasons of “Black Mirror” were also just three-episodes long, too. (Seasons 3 and 4 had six episodes each.)
Ok, Ok, he was joking, but there are a couple of real reasons behind their decision to shorten the fifth season.
Also Read: Here Are All the Ways 'Black Mirror' Season 5 Connects to the Rest of the Show's Universe
“One was that, originally, ‘Bandersnatch’ was actually part of Season 5,” Brooker told TheWrap. “So we shot ‘Striking Vipers...
- 6/7/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Kimmy Schmidt, meet Bandersnatch.
Netflix is bringing back “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” for an untitled, one-off interactive special, set to debut in 2020. It’s the first interactive comedy for the streamer.
As with Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” movie and other interactive shows, viewers will be able to make choices on behalf of the “Kimmy Schmidt” characters and take them down different story branches — and they’ll get different jokes.
Cast returning for the interactive special include Ellie Kemper in the title role, along with Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski and Carol Kane.
It’s something of a stunt, but there’s no doubt fans of the show will be eager to dive back into the off-kilter world of “Kimmy Schmidt” in a new way. Another goal for Netflix: to drive viewers to rewatch all or part of the existing 51 episodes in the series, or reel in new fans to binge-watch it...
Netflix is bringing back “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” for an untitled, one-off interactive special, set to debut in 2020. It’s the first interactive comedy for the streamer.
As with Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” movie and other interactive shows, viewers will be able to make choices on behalf of the “Kimmy Schmidt” characters and take them down different story branches — and they’ll get different jokes.
Cast returning for the interactive special include Ellie Kemper in the title role, along with Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski and Carol Kane.
It’s something of a stunt, but there’s no doubt fans of the show will be eager to dive back into the off-kilter world of “Kimmy Schmidt” in a new way. Another goal for Netflix: to drive viewers to rewatch all or part of the existing 51 episodes in the series, or reel in new fans to binge-watch it...
- 5/9/2019
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Asim Chaudhry, Tallulah Haddon, Catriona Knox, Paul Bradley | Written by Charlie Brooker | Directed by David Slade
Charlie Brooker’s seminal TV series Black Mirror returns on Netflix with an advantageous subtextually corrupted and ironic damning assessment of a “choose your own adventure” feature-length episode in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Directed by David Slade, Bandersnatch offers a distinctive and unique outlook on the format of typical narratives found in cinema, yet often comes unstuck with its underwhelming lacklustre anecdote and now far too overly strong ethos that is becoming stale and predictable.
Fionn Whitehead as Stefan Butler impresses with leading actor status after his rather quiet but sizeable performance in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. He showcases an efficient and explorative emotional range. Benefitting the film due to the character crux structure and the resulting impact each sequence depends upon to engage with the audience.
Charlie Brooker’s seminal TV series Black Mirror returns on Netflix with an advantageous subtextually corrupted and ironic damning assessment of a “choose your own adventure” feature-length episode in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Directed by David Slade, Bandersnatch offers a distinctive and unique outlook on the format of typical narratives found in cinema, yet often comes unstuck with its underwhelming lacklustre anecdote and now far too overly strong ethos that is becoming stale and predictable.
Fionn Whitehead as Stefan Butler impresses with leading actor status after his rather quiet but sizeable performance in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. He showcases an efficient and explorative emotional range. Benefitting the film due to the character crux structure and the resulting impact each sequence depends upon to engage with the audience.
- 1/28/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
How much have you Bandersnatched?
Heading to the new year, Netflix sprung on us Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive movie that follows Stefan (Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead), a wannabe videogame designer, and his fateful encounter with industry icon Colin Ritman (Maze Runner‘s Will Poulter). As Stefan pursues an adaptation of Bandersnatch, a Choose Your Own Path fantasy novel by (the uxoricidal?) Jerome F. Davies, viewers are intermittently prompted to choose Stefan’s next response/action. The results range from merely cosmetic and sometimes moot to occasionally very deadly.
Theoretically, there are “one trillion possible paths” the viewer can take,...
Heading to the new year, Netflix sprung on us Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, an interactive movie that follows Stefan (Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead), a wannabe videogame designer, and his fateful encounter with industry icon Colin Ritman (Maze Runner‘s Will Poulter). As Stefan pursues an adaptation of Bandersnatch, a Choose Your Own Path fantasy novel by (the uxoricidal?) Jerome F. Davies, viewers are intermittently prompted to choose Stefan’s next response/action. The results range from merely cosmetic and sometimes moot to occasionally very deadly.
Theoretically, there are “one trillion possible paths” the viewer can take,...
- 1/12/2019
- TVLine.com
Joseph Baxter Jan 11, 2019
The “Choose Your Own Adventure” usage of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has led to a lawsuit from the book series publisher.
Say what you will about the perceived originality of its concept, Netflix Black Mirror standalone movie Bandersnatch has likely opened the floodgates for future streaming offerings across platforms to similarly utilize a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style interactive narrative. However, it seems that said style description is more potent than Netflix anticipated, since it has led to a lawsuit from the publisher of the popular book series it references.
Chooseco LLC, a Vermont-based book publisher which – indicated by its very name – holds the rights to “Choose Your Own Adventure” branding, is seeking $25 million in damages from Netflix in a lawsuit that claims exploitation of the publisher’s established brand awareness to promote the December 28 release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, reports Variety. The young-reader-aimed Choose Your Own...
The “Choose Your Own Adventure” usage of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has led to a lawsuit from the book series publisher.
Say what you will about the perceived originality of its concept, Netflix Black Mirror standalone movie Bandersnatch has likely opened the floodgates for future streaming offerings across platforms to similarly utilize a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style interactive narrative. However, it seems that said style description is more potent than Netflix anticipated, since it has led to a lawsuit from the publisher of the popular book series it references.
Chooseco LLC, a Vermont-based book publisher which – indicated by its very name – holds the rights to “Choose Your Own Adventure” branding, is seeking $25 million in damages from Netflix in a lawsuit that claims exploitation of the publisher’s established brand awareness to promote the December 28 release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, reports Variety. The young-reader-aimed Choose Your Own...
- 1/11/2019
- Den of Geek
To celebrate the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which has taken the world by storm since its debut over Christmas, we sat down with the creators and stars of this unique and enthralling episode to discuss every possible outcome.
Telling the story of would-be computer programmer Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), Bandersnatch is an immersive, one-of-a-kind special that allows you as the viewer to decide what happens to our protagonist. We chatted to Whitehead and co-stars Will Poulter (Detroit) about the challenges that faced them as actors with such a unique script and whether they have played the game as of yet, as well as writer/creator Charlie Brooker and producer Annabel Jones about the multiple challenges that awaited them when they first signed on and whether the strange process of writing it made them have to adapt different as writers.
You can watch the full interview below:
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is available on Netflix UK now.
Telling the story of would-be computer programmer Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), Bandersnatch is an immersive, one-of-a-kind special that allows you as the viewer to decide what happens to our protagonist. We chatted to Whitehead and co-stars Will Poulter (Detroit) about the challenges that faced them as actors with such a unique script and whether they have played the game as of yet, as well as writer/creator Charlie Brooker and producer Annabel Jones about the multiple challenges that awaited them when they first signed on and whether the strange process of writing it made them have to adapt different as writers.
You can watch the full interview below:
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is available on Netflix UK now.
- 1/8/2019
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Netflix's choose-your-own-path sci-fi adventure Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is officially the internet's new favorite thing - Ok, save for maybe Bird Box. At the heart of the story is Stefan, an ambitious young video game programmer played by Fionn Whitehead, who tries to create an interactive video game based on a book. Throughout all iterations of his story, he crosses paths with famous creator Colin Ritman, played by Will Poulter. If you couldn't figure out why Poulter looks so familiar, we've got the answers for you right here.
The 25-year-old British actor has been working since 2007, when he starred in the comedy film Son of Rambow. His early career definitely leaned more into the comedy side of things. Alongside his classmates, he starred in the British sketch comedy series School of Comedy, which had a cast entirely made up of student actors performing adult-level comedy sketches.
Poulter burst onto the...
The 25-year-old British actor has been working since 2007, when he starred in the comedy film Son of Rambow. His early career definitely leaned more into the comedy side of things. Alongside his classmates, he starred in the British sketch comedy series School of Comedy, which had a cast entirely made up of student actors performing adult-level comedy sketches.
Poulter burst onto the...
- 1/5/2019
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Black Mirror‘s latest episode, “Bandersnatch,” is a unique experience, an interactive outing that allows the viewer to alter the life of video game programmer Stefan Butler as he works on his passion project, a Choose Your Own Adventure game based on his favorite novel. However, the story gets really meta when Stefan starts developing delusions that his actions are being controlled by some unseen force.
The impressively complex game/episode/movie, whatever you want to classify it as, allows the viewer to guide Stefan through various outcomes. Sometimes it encourages you to go back and pick another path, but often these wrong turns still affect the unfolding narrative. There are many ways to end the story of “Bandersnatch,” of course, but what are all of the different outcomes?
Well, in case you haven’t had time to go through them all yet, here’s a quick rundown of what you can expect.
The impressively complex game/episode/movie, whatever you want to classify it as, allows the viewer to guide Stefan through various outcomes. Sometimes it encourages you to go back and pick another path, but often these wrong turns still affect the unfolding narrative. There are many ways to end the story of “Bandersnatch,” of course, but what are all of the different outcomes?
Well, in case you haven’t had time to go through them all yet, here’s a quick rundown of what you can expect.
- 12/31/2018
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
[This story contains spoilers from Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.]
There is a certain level of mystery surrounding the Black Mirror: Bandersnatch endings. Even leading up to the interactive film’s Dec. 28 launch, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker insisted to The Hollywood Reporter that he and his producing partner Annabel Jones still hadn’t agreed on a number. "We genuinely haven’t sat down and chatted about how many we think there are! We haven’t actually sat down to count them,” says Brooker, who wrote Bandersnatch.
As THR revealed, Black: Mirror Bandersnatch is Netflix’s first interactive offering for adults, and the stand-alone film ...
There is a certain level of mystery surrounding the Black Mirror: Bandersnatch endings. Even leading up to the interactive film’s Dec. 28 launch, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker insisted to The Hollywood Reporter that he and his producing partner Annabel Jones still hadn’t agreed on a number. "We genuinely haven’t sat down and chatted about how many we think there are! We haven’t actually sat down to count them,” says Brooker, who wrote Bandersnatch.
As THR revealed, Black: Mirror Bandersnatch is Netflix’s first interactive offering for adults, and the stand-alone film ...
- 12/30/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Alec Bojalad Dec 29, 2018
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch wants the viewer to feel in control...until suddenly they are not.
The following contains spoilers for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
I really just wanted the best for Stefan Butler in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
As portrayed by Fionn Whitehead, Stefan is quite like a lot of the best video game protagonists. He’s a being created to elicit empathy in his “controller.” Like The Legend of Zelda’s Link (so named because he was to be a “link” between the video game player and the sprawling world of Hyrule), Stefan is the strong silent type. He reacts with his big, doe eyes to the madness and wonder around him. Since Bandersnatch is a “choose your own adventure” story developed under Netflix’s new Netflix Interactive imprint, the viewer (that is to say me) takes control of Stefan’s decisions. And I wanted those decisions...
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch wants the viewer to feel in control...until suddenly they are not.
The following contains spoilers for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
I really just wanted the best for Stefan Butler in Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
As portrayed by Fionn Whitehead, Stefan is quite like a lot of the best video game protagonists. He’s a being created to elicit empathy in his “controller.” Like The Legend of Zelda’s Link (so named because he was to be a “link” between the video game player and the sprawling world of Hyrule), Stefan is the strong silent type. He reacts with his big, doe eyes to the madness and wonder around him. Since Bandersnatch is a “choose your own adventure” story developed under Netflix’s new Netflix Interactive imprint, the viewer (that is to say me) takes control of Stefan’s decisions. And I wanted those decisions...
- 12/29/2018
- Den of Geek
Fans were upset when they learned that they wouldn’t be getting a full season of Black Mirror as usual this new year, but it seems there was nothing to worry about as what they got instead was much more interesting.
Yes, as you may’ve heard, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has taken the internet by storm and people simply can’t stop talking about it, and for good reason. Set in 1984, the feature-length episode stars Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead as a young programmer named Stefan trying to adapt a chaotic fantasy novel – the fictional Bandersnatch by Jerome F. Davies, who apparently killed his wife – into a video game, which makes him start questioning his own reality.
On its own, that premise might not sound like anything particularly special, but the hook in Bandersnatch is that it’s an interactive, Choose Your Own Adventure experience. Which means that as you watch,...
Yes, as you may’ve heard, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch has taken the internet by storm and people simply can’t stop talking about it, and for good reason. Set in 1984, the feature-length episode stars Dunkirk‘s Fionn Whitehead as a young programmer named Stefan trying to adapt a chaotic fantasy novel – the fictional Bandersnatch by Jerome F. Davies, who apparently killed his wife – into a video game, which makes him start questioning his own reality.
On its own, that premise might not sound like anything particularly special, but the hook in Bandersnatch is that it’s an interactive, Choose Your Own Adventure experience. Which means that as you watch,...
- 12/29/2018
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Netflix dropped the standalone “Black Mirror” movie “Bandersnatch” on Friday, introducing its subscribers to the first of what it hopes to be many interactive, Choose Your Own Adventure-style streaming experiences, and critics can’t seem to agree on the show or what it signals for the future of the format.
The highly self-referential episode follows a video game developer (“Dunkirk” star Fionn Whitehead) who, in the process of working on a choose your own adventure-style video game, must confront the possibility that his own choices are similarly being controlled by some other outside force.
“You could read this as annoyingly self-referential, and initially I did too,” TheWrap’s Tim Molloy wrote in his review of the episode. “But thinking about it more, I think [‘Black Mirror’ creator Charlie Brooker] was being subversive — biting the hand that streams him.”...
The highly self-referential episode follows a video game developer (“Dunkirk” star Fionn Whitehead) who, in the process of working on a choose your own adventure-style video game, must confront the possibility that his own choices are similarly being controlled by some other outside force.
“You could read this as annoyingly self-referential, and initially I did too,” TheWrap’s Tim Molloy wrote in his review of the episode. “But thinking about it more, I think [‘Black Mirror’ creator Charlie Brooker] was being subversive — biting the hand that streams him.”...
- 12/28/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Netflix on Friday released a standalone Black Mirror movie, subtitled Bandersnatch, in which we the viewer are invited to make choices for the main character. To what fates have you thus far led wannabe video game designer Stefan Butler?
English actor Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) stars as 19-year-old Stefan, who as the movie opens is about to take a meeting with Tuckersoft, a video game company circa 1984 that has been riding the coattails of genius programmer Colin Ritman (Maze Runner‘s Will Poulter). Stefan pitches company boss Mohan Tucker (Asim Chaudhry) an adaptation of Bandersnatch, a Choose Your Own Path fantasy novel by Jerome F.
English actor Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) stars as 19-year-old Stefan, who as the movie opens is about to take a meeting with Tuckersoft, a video game company circa 1984 that has been riding the coattails of genius programmer Colin Ritman (Maze Runner‘s Will Poulter). Stefan pitches company boss Mohan Tucker (Asim Chaudhry) an adaptation of Bandersnatch, a Choose Your Own Path fantasy novel by Jerome F.
- 12/28/2018
- TVLine.com
“Bandersnatch,” the new film released on Netflix Dec. 28, exists in a paradox. On the one hand, a branching film with multiple endings, so formally unlike what television generally is, could not be made and broadcast to quite so many people without the imprimatur of a well-loved series. On the other, “Bandersnatch,” as creative work and not as experiment, falls so short of the standard “Black Mirror” has set that to put it forward is to risk the credibility the series’s first four seasons have earned.
After a brief preamble explaining the way the show functions — viewers are able to click and choose which forked path protagonist Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) takes — we’re plunged into a story that seems even at first blush a bit thin. Stefan is an aspiring video game designer working on a game whose many binary choices yield a massive volume of potential outcomes. After obtaining...
After a brief preamble explaining the way the show functions — viewers are able to click and choose which forked path protagonist Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) takes — we’re plunged into a story that seems even at first blush a bit thin. Stefan is an aspiring video game designer working on a game whose many binary choices yield a massive volume of potential outcomes. After obtaining...
- 12/28/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: This review will be split into two sections — the first spoiler-free, the second containing some spoilers for “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.”]
Bad news for anyone who likes to sprawl on the couch when they watch “Black Mirror” — the new interactive film just launched by Netflix is not designed for passive viewing, but it is a lot of fun. “Bandersnatch,” starring Fionn Whitehead, is not available on some devices (including Chromecast and Apple TV), and for the best viewing experience, you’ll want to be at the ready to guide the story forward.
The actual plot of “Bandersnatch” isn’t all that complicated on the surface: In the year 1984, Stefan (Whitehead) is a young aspiring video game designer whose dream is to adapt a massive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure paperback called “Bandersnatch” as a PC game. He gets his chance courtesy of an established publisher (Asim Chaudhry), but while Stefan’s journey goes down many different roads, one element remains constant: Designing games like this is really hard work. So hard, in fact, that it could drive a person insane.
Bad news for anyone who likes to sprawl on the couch when they watch “Black Mirror” — the new interactive film just launched by Netflix is not designed for passive viewing, but it is a lot of fun. “Bandersnatch,” starring Fionn Whitehead, is not available on some devices (including Chromecast and Apple TV), and for the best viewing experience, you’ll want to be at the ready to guide the story forward.
The actual plot of “Bandersnatch” isn’t all that complicated on the surface: In the year 1984, Stefan (Whitehead) is a young aspiring video game designer whose dream is to adapt a massive Choose-Your-Own-Adventure paperback called “Bandersnatch” as a PC game. He gets his chance courtesy of an established publisher (Asim Chaudhry), but while Stefan’s journey goes down many different roads, one element remains constant: Designing games like this is really hard work. So hard, in fact, that it could drive a person insane.
- 12/28/2018
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix's first adult-oriented interactive film is a mind-bending choose-your-own-adventure story.
Are you ready to press play on Netflix’s worst kept secret? For months, we’ve heard that Netflix and the minds behind Black Mirror were hard at work on a choose-your-own-adventure story as part of the upcoming fifth season. Rumors swirled that the entry would be a standalone film. Intentional or not, the December 28th release date leaked through Netflix press materials. Still nothing was officially confirmed until December 27th, when Netflix told everyone to “relax” and dropped the official trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Neither a Christmas special nor Black Mirror season 5 premiere, Bandersnatch introduces itself as a Netflix Interactive Film. For an optimal viewing experience, a pre-title sequence video instructs viewers to keep the remote control in hand. At key moments and seemingly mundane ones, two options will appear on screen and...
Are you ready to press play on Netflix’s worst kept secret? For months, we’ve heard that Netflix and the minds behind Black Mirror were hard at work on a choose-your-own-adventure story as part of the upcoming fifth season. Rumors swirled that the entry would be a standalone film. Intentional or not, the December 28th release date leaked through Netflix press materials. Still nothing was officially confirmed until December 27th, when Netflix told everyone to “relax” and dropped the official trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Neither a Christmas special nor Black Mirror season 5 premiere, Bandersnatch introduces itself as a Netflix Interactive Film. For an optimal viewing experience, a pre-title sequence video instructs viewers to keep the remote control in hand. At key moments and seemingly mundane ones, two options will appear on screen and...
- 12/28/2018
- Den of Geek
Alright, “Black Mirror” fans, it’s high time we get to the bottom of this whole “Bandersnatch” mystery. Well, as much as we possibly can before the eagerly-anticipated movie drops on Netflix on Friday.
Widely expected to be the “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style “Black Mirror” we’ve been waiting for, the standalone film installment of the Charlie Brooker-created anthology series finally got a trailer in the wee small hours of Thursday that offered a few answers and left us with even more questions, like who or what is Bandersnatch?
The 1-minute, 40-second video reveals that, within the “Black Mirror” universe, “Bandersnatch” is a fantasy novel by an author named Jerome F. Davies who, we’re told, “went cuckoo and cut his wife’s head off.”
Also Read: 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Trailer Reveals Film Will Drop Friday - So You Can 'Relax' (Video)
In the trailer, we learn Stefan...
Widely expected to be the “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style “Black Mirror” we’ve been waiting for, the standalone film installment of the Charlie Brooker-created anthology series finally got a trailer in the wee small hours of Thursday that offered a few answers and left us with even more questions, like who or what is Bandersnatch?
The 1-minute, 40-second video reveals that, within the “Black Mirror” universe, “Bandersnatch” is a fantasy novel by an author named Jerome F. Davies who, we’re told, “went cuckoo and cut his wife’s head off.”
Also Read: 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' Trailer Reveals Film Will Drop Friday - So You Can 'Relax' (Video)
In the trailer, we learn Stefan...
- 12/27/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Alec Bojalad Jun 5, 2019
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has confirmed that all episodes of the show take place within the same universe. We figure out how.
This article is why some TV showrunners reject Easter eggs. Thankfully, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker hasn’t fully learned to guard himself from internet exaggerators and fabulists like myself yet. Brooker created an anthology series in which each episode features different casts, settings, and presumably universes. Then because he’s a creative and thoughtful artist, Brooker also sprinkled in some Easter Eggs into early Black Mirror episodes. Nothing major - a reference to Prime Minster David Carrow here, a Waldo bumper sticker there - it was just all in good fun.
But that doesn’t mean that all these episodes occur in the same universe, right? That would be insane. Right? Well prior to season two’s Christmas special “White Christmas,” Brooker apparently agreed.
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has confirmed that all episodes of the show take place within the same universe. We figure out how.
This article is why some TV showrunners reject Easter eggs. Thankfully, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker hasn’t fully learned to guard himself from internet exaggerators and fabulists like myself yet. Brooker created an anthology series in which each episode features different casts, settings, and presumably universes. Then because he’s a creative and thoughtful artist, Brooker also sprinkled in some Easter Eggs into early Black Mirror episodes. Nothing major - a reference to Prime Minster David Carrow here, a Waldo bumper sticker there - it was just all in good fun.
But that doesn’t mean that all these episodes occur in the same universe, right? That would be insane. Right? Well prior to season two’s Christmas special “White Christmas,” Brooker apparently agreed.
- 1/3/2018
- Den of Geek
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