‘Black Mirror’ season seven announced featuring Peter Capaldi, Rashida Jones and more
The cast for the new season of Black Mirror has been announced by Netflix today and it includes Peter Capaldi, Rashida Jones and many more.
Season seven of the Charlie Brooker-created show will arrive in 2025 and a cast announcement arrived today via a mysterious ‘date drop’ video, which saw an old PC screen display names of the stars dotted among computer coding.
As well as Capaldi and Jones, the lead cast will feature: Awkwafina (Jackpot), Milanka Brooks (Mum And I Don’t Talk Anymore), , Emma Corrin (Deadpool and Wolverine), Patsy Ferran (Firebrand), Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Lewis Gribben (Blade Runner 2099), Osy Ikhile (Citadel), Siena Kelly (Domino Day), Billy Magnussen (Road House), Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean) and Cristin Milioti (The Penguin).
Others announced include: Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Issa Rae (Barbie), Paul G. Raymond (Horrible Histories), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), Jimmi Simpson (Westworld) and Harriet Walter (Succession).
The series is currently filming and will return next year with six new episodes, one of which will be a sequel to the classic season four sci-fi adventure opener, USS Callister.
In the teaser video, it appears that some cast names could feature underneath possible episode titles, although as yet, this hasn’t been confirmed. Check out the video teaser here:
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The news comes after some Black Mirror fans believed they spotted a clue to a returning episode in the new trailer for season seven of the show, which arrived back in March.
In the trailer, some sharp-eyed viewers on social media spotted an apparent reference to USS Callister, the Star Trek-inspired opening episode of the fourth season in 2017 – which has now indeed been confirmed.
Starring Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly, the episode revolved around the reclusive programmer’s creation of a simulated reality in which he served as a Captain Kirk–like figure commanding a crew based on his real-life co-workers.
Brooker meanwhile also spoke in an interview with Netflix about creating the new season earlier this year.
“Partly as a challenge, and partly to keep things fresh for both me and the viewer, I began this season by deliberately upending some of my own core assumptions about what to expect,” he said.
“Consequently, this time, alongside some of the more familiar Black Mirror tropes we’ve also got a few new elements, including some I’ve previously sworn blind the show would never do, to stretch the parameters of what a Black Mirror episode even is.”
Black Mirror returned with its sixth season in 2023 after a four-year hiatus that featured an ensemble cast of Hollywood A-listers. While season six consisted of five episodes – each clocking in between 40 minutes and well over an hour – season five only ran for three episodes, each of which ran for over an hour.
The anthology show was originally launched on Channel 4, where it stayed for two seasons. Brooker recently revealed that the network effectively “cancelled” the series in his new book, Inside Black Mirror, which prompted the move to Netflix for its third season in 2016.
Since the show moved to Netflix, Black Mirror has featured stars such as Miley Cyrus, (whose house apparently burned down whilst filming her episode), Salma Hayek (who was worried her episode would get her “in trouble”), and Aaron Paul, amongst others.
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