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"Black Mirror: Bandersnatch"
- "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch," the first "Black Mirror" standalone movie, debuts on Netflix on Friday.
- Netflix on Thursday released a trailer for the movie, which follows a game programmer tasked with creating a video game based on a classic novel called "Bandersnatch."
- Netflix has yet to release details about the new season, but Bloomberg reported in October that a fifth season of the sci-fi anthology series would premiere before year's end.
The wait is over for more "Black Mirror" on Netflix. It's just not the fifth season fans expected.
Netflix dropped a trailer and premiere date for its first standalone "Black Mirror" movie on Thursday. The movie, called "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch," will debut on the streaming giant on Friday. The movie's Netflix page, seen below, went live last week, prompting speculation that it would premiere before the end of 2018.
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The Netflix page for "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" is already live.
In "Bandersnatch," "Dunkirk" star Fionn Whitehead plays a game programmer tasked with creating a video game based on a classic novel called "Bandersnatch." It's directed by David Slade, who also directed the season four episode, "Metalhead."
Netflix acquired Charlie Brooker's sci-fi anthology series in 2015 after it became a hit on the UK's Channel 4. It has since released seasons three and four. Netflix has built a strategy around picking up the rights to British TV series and streaming them to a global audience. In doing so, it introduces the show to a larger audience and picks up subscribers for the company. Other examples include "The End of the F---ing World" and "Bodyguard," which debuted on Netflix this year.
While each episode of "Black Mirror" tells a self-contained story and is even considered TV movies at the Emmys, "Bandersnatch" is the first standalone movie not released as part of a TV season, and the trailer describes it as a "Black Mirror event."
In October, Bloomberg reported that the show's fifth season would premiere before the end of the year and include a "choose-your-own-adventure" episode, but no details for the new season have been revealed by Netflix.
Watch the full "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" trailer below: