Black Mirror Season 7 Includes a USS Callister Sequel
Netflix has released the trailer and first-look photos for Black Mirror Season 7, which will launch on the streaming service on April 10. The seventh season will consist of six episodes, including a sequel to the sci-fi adventure USS Callister.
“You can expect a mix of genres and styles,” said creator Charlie Booker during Netflix’s annual Geeked Week festival last September. “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 also told Netflix blog Tudum that the new season is “a little bit OG Black Mirror. It’s back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories — there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”
One of the upcoming episodes will be a sequel to the Season 4 opener, USS Callister, in which a video game programmer invents a simulated reality where he’s captain of a spacecraft, his co-workers are his crew, and the sci-fi adventures they embark on take a decidedly sinister turn.
“Fans of the show will recognize the cast of a certain spaceship from one of our episodes reappearing,” Brooker added. “We’ve done a sequel for the first time in Black Mirror history. Normally, I kill off all the characters at the end of an episode, [but] I kept some of ’em alive. I’m growing as a human.”
The Black Mirror Season 7 cast includes Awkwafina, Milanka Brooks, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Patsy Ferran, Paul Giamatti, Lewis Gribben, Osy Ikhile, Rashida Jones, Siena Kelly, Billy Magnussen, Rosy McEwen, Cristin Milioti, Chris O’Dowd, and Issa Rae.
Paul G. Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jimmi Simpson, Harriet Walter, Michele Austin, Ben Bailey Smith, Asim Chaudhry, Josh Finan, James Nelson-Joyce, Will Poulter, Jay Simpson, and Michael Workéyè round out the cast.
From production company Broke & Bones, Black Mirror is executive-produced by Charlie Brooker, Jessica Rhoades, and Annabel Jones.
