Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2018-12-28

Country

United States, United Kingdom

Production

House of Tomorrow

Genre

Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, Horror

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Website

http://www.netflix.com/title/80988062

Director

David Slade

Actors

Fionn Whitehead, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Asim Chaudhry, Will Poulter, Tallulah Haddon, Catriona Knox, Paul Bradley, Jonathan Aris, A.J. Houghton
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Charlie Brooker

Producer

Russell McLean, Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones

Operator

Aaron Morton

Composer

Brian Reitzell

Artist

Jasmin Backshall

Audition

Editing

Tony Kearns
All team (126)

• The film does not have a fixed runtime; its duration depends on which storyline the viewer chooses. The shortest version of the film lasts 40 minutes. The total amount of footage shot is 5 hours 12 minutes 13 seconds.
• Jerome F. Davis is played by Jeff Minter, a British video game developer and programmer.
• "Brandashmyg" is a game that Imagine Software once planned to release, but went bankrupt in 1984.
• The word "brandashmyg" was invented by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).
• Stefan is listening to the Sony TPS-L2, the first in the Walkman line.
• The fictional company Tuckersoft is based on the bankrupt company Imagine Software.
• In one of the episodes, the words "Hudson" and "Imagine" are heard – these are the names of computer companies from the early 1980s.
• The cover of Crash magazine, which Colin is reading, was specially drawn by artist Oliver Frey – the author of all the magazine’s covers during its publication.
• One of the endings features a cassette recording of computer data sounds; loading the sound into a ZX Spectrum provides the viewer with a QR code, which leads to a fictional website where a playable copy of the ZX Spectrum game "Nohzdyve" can be downloaded.
• Stefan visits a psychiatrist at the San Junipero Medical Center. San Junipero is the title of the 4th episode of the 3rd season of the series "Black Mirror", which aired on October 21, 2016.
• In some storyline variations, Colin reads Crash magazine or 2000 AD comics.
• The character in the game Colin is working on is constantly falling. This is a reference to one of the storyline variations in which Colin jumps out of a window.
• The symbol shown on the screen is the same one the viewer saw in the "White Bear" episode from 2013.
• At the beginning, Colin shows Stefan his new game "The Dive" – this is a reference to the episode of the same name from the 3rd season, released in 2016.
• "Brandashmyg" is a game that Imagine Software once planned to release, but went bankrupt in 1984.
• The word "brandashmyg" was invented by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).
• In one of the episodes, the words "Hudson" and "Imagine" can be heard – these are the names of computer companies from the early 1980s.
• In one of the endings, you can hear a tape recording of computer data sounds; loading the sound into a ZX Spectrum provides the viewer with a QR code, which leads to a fictional website where a playable copy of the ZX Spectrum game "Nohzdyve" can be downloaded.
• Stefan visits a psychiatrist at the San Junipero Medical Center. "San Junipero" is the title of the 4th episode of the 3rd season of "Black Mirror", which aired on October 21, 2016.
• The symbol shown on screen is the same one the viewer saw in the 2013 episode "White Bear".
• At the beginning, Colin shows Stefan his new game, "The Dive" – a reference to the episode of the same name from the 3rd season, which aired in 2016.