Episode 608
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Tue, 2019-Jan-01 02:59 UTC
Length - 2:50
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With 188,409 views on Monday, 31 December 2018 our article of the day is Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a 2018 interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade. Netflix released it on 28 December 2018 as a standalone film.
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), both of whom 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. It also alludes to Lewis Carroll's own works that feature the bandersnatch creature. A piece of science fiction and horror, 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. Filming and production took longer than for typical Black Mirror episodes. A quickly-deleted tweet from a Netflix account about the release of Bandersnatch led to widespread media speculation throughout December, which Netflix declined to comment on. The trailer for Bandersnatch was released on 27 December 2018, a day before the film was released. Critical reception for the film was mostly positive, though some found the interactive nature to be too gimmicky for a proper Black Mirror narrative.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:59 UTC on Tuesday, 1 January 2019.
For the full current version of the article, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror%3A_Bandersnatch.
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