The ‘Black Mirror’ movie trailer looks like a darker, trippier ‘Ready Player One’

Black Mirror is diving into the trend of ’80s nostalgia, but these aren’t the childhood pixel games you remember. This isn’t your mamma’s (or teen boys’) retro trip. It’s more like a journey into madness than the warm comfort of returning to simpler times. 

“Bandersnatch,” the first Black Mirror feature film, will tell the story of a programmer creating a video game based on the fantasy novel of an unhinged genius. There are also some drugs involved — but unlike the cocaine popular in the 1984 of the real world, these pills have mind-melting effects.

It also might deliver on the rumors of a create-your-own-adventure style Black Mirror episode that circulated earlier in the year. After all, it’s the perfect setting and story for it. Read more…

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