Jones explained that this mother/daughter relationship would be told over several years as the child grew up – and that’s the reason why director Jodie Foster was asked to join the project.
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The trailers for this episode hint at an eerie tale of over-parenting with Rosemarie DeWitt’s protective mother installing sophisticated surveillance software into the brain of her daughter Sarah after the latter briefly goes missing in their hometown. We went back and changed other aspects of the script to suit that setup.” Arkangel Here's a breakdown of the story and its themes. She wanted to see if she could get into a certain mindset,” added Jones.īrooker continued: “We thought, ‘Oh, that’s interesting, we hadn’t thought of that!’. Black Mirror season 4 is now available on Netflix, and Crocodile is the third episode in the new season. “She hasn’t played that sort of character before and wanted a challenge. “We sent the script to Andrea to look at some of the other roles and she said, ‘I want to play this part’,” he said. While Brooker himself said little about Crocodile’s story, he did reveal that Riseborough’s character was originally written as a man. In the trailer we see a character – Birdman’s Andrea Riseborough – getting to the bottom of a car crash with the help of a memory-extracting machine. The message that accompanied the poster unveiling – “Memories can be subjective” – suggests Crocodile will ask questions about our recall. Crocodileįilmed in Iceland, this episode is shrouded in mystery. However, without any ad breaks to speedbump the plot, we can still expect the episode to be one giant chase. Interestingly, although Brooker highlights the episode’s short running time, Metalhead will be only slightly shorter than the 44-minute length episodes from the show’s first two series, originally broadcast on Channel 4.
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We tend to be more about a human dilemma.” This book breaks down the black mirror series episode by episode, with a running dialogue between Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones and the ever rotating team. “It’s not the sort of story that we tend to do. It’s a short technological nightmare playing out against… I don’t want to say against the clock, but it’s very quick and primal,” explained Brooker. “It’s just 38 minutes long and it’s deliberately a pared back story. Although Brooker did not say whether there was a specific reason why the episode was shot in monochrome, or how that robot dog we see chasing Maxine Peake in the trailer fits in, we do know it’s a fantastically fast-paced episode.