‘Black Mirror’ season seven: explosive new trailer and full release details shared
A host of new stars have also been announced
by Damian Jones · NMEThe first official trailer for season seven of Black Mirror has been shared by Netflix.
The clip, which you can watch below, shows various snippets of up and coming episodes featuring previously confirmed stars Peter Capaldi, Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Rashida Jones.
The series will return on April 10 with six new episodes, one of which will be a sequel to the classic season four sci-fi adventure opener, USS Callister.
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.
The cast for the new season was previously shared last year and along with Capaldi, Giamatti and Jones it included Billy Magnussen (Road House), Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean) and Cristin Milioti (The Penguin).
Now, a host of new names have been added including the return of Will Poulter, James Nelson-Joyce who recently starred in Steven Knight‘s A Thousand Blows, Ben Bailey Smith (Andor), Jay Simpson (The Day Of The Jackal), Michele Austin (Hard Truths), Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), Josh Finan (Say Nothing) and Michael Workéyè (This Is Going To Hurt).
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Creator Charlie Brooker previously spoke in an interview with Netflix about creating the new season last 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.