- Charlie Brooker says fans might “recognise a certain spaceship” from a previous season
- Awkwafina, Rashida Jones, Issa Rae, Paul Giamatti, Chris O’Dowd and Tracee Ellis Ross among cast members announced for season 7
- The new season will air on Netflix in 2025
Black Mirror season seven is on its way, and we now know a bit more about it after the cast list was revealed along with the first clip of the new season.
Unveiled as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, the new season will land in 2025 and will feature a huge ensemble cast featuring Issa Rae, Awkwafina, Chris O’Dowd, Paul Giamatti, Tracee Ellis Ross, Rashida Jones and Peter Capaldi.
Speaking about the upcoming season, series creator Charlie Brooker mentioned how there would be a follow up to season four favourite USS Callister, which opened the fourth season in 2017. Brooker revealed that fans would recognise a “certain spaceship from one of our episodes reappearing” – a reference to Callister, which saw Jesse Plemons play troubled computer programmer Robert Daly, who would possess his co-workers by stealing their DNA and creating digital clones of them.
“We’ve done a sequel for the first time in Black Mirror history,” Brooker explained, adding, “Normally, I kill off all the characters at the end of an episode, and I kept some of ’em alive. I’m growing as a human.”
The unveiling of the season seven cast came alongside a glitchy video uploaded to Netflix’s official social media accounts, confirming the 2025 release date. And while not tons is known about the upcoming six new episodes, Brooker has revealed how the show is going “back to basics”, channeling “the OG Black Mirror”.
“You can expect a mix of genres and styles. 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.
“We have evolved to a place where it’s kind of OG Black Mirror this season. So it’s all sci-fi, techno-dystopia.”
(h/t The Independent)
