Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has given a hint about the future of the show.
Charlie Brooker would consider a sequel to Black Mirror’s “f****** horrible” season opener.
The 54-year-old writer and showrunner launched the most recent series of his dark anthology show with Common People, following a couple who take on a lifesaving technology only for the subscription model to steadily price them out of vital features.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: “I would never want to say no. I love a fake advert in something, and that was the closest I’ve gotten to actually having a dystopian, blackly comedic advert in the middle of Black Mirror.
“There’s a lot more you could do with that technology, so I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.”
In the episode, Mike (Chris O’Dowd) and Amanda (Rashida Jones) sign up to the Riverdale app after she’s diagnosed with a brain tumour.
However, corporate greed soon takes centre stage as the couple struggle to pay for life saving features, as they find themselves arguing with Rivermind worker Gaynor.
Charlie added: “Gaynor is still around — presumably still working for Rivermind — and we do love an Easter egg in the show.”
The episode was a dark one, but the creator admitted there were some plot points they cut out due to either time restrictions or being too close to concepts explored in past episodes.
He said: “We ended up cutting out even more horrible things, and it’s still pretty f****** horrible.”
Other ideas included all food tasting “of boiled potatoes unless you pay an extra $70”.
The original concept for the script was “a lighthearted episode about somebody who advertises things all the time”, but the premise took a more sinister turn.
He revealed: “There was originally a whole privacy layer in there that I stripped because it was a little too similar to a bit in Joan Is Awful, which was an episode last season that Ally Pankiw also directed.
“Originally, there was a line [in the script] where they’re asking about how the commercials are suited to the situation they’re in, and they’re realising that it’s monitoring everything they’re saying and doing.
“It’s watching her in the classroom, watching them in bed together. They’ve got no privacy anymore, and you can opt out of that, but that costs them $2,000 a month, or whatever it was.”
Charlie Brooker teases sequel to ‘horrible’ Black Mirror episode
