Black Mirror will increase the story of the USS Callister in its upcoming seventh season. Within the present’s first follow-up, the Black Mirror inventive crew in contrast the USS Callister sequel to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
How is Black Mirror’s USS Callister sequel like Return of the Jedi?
When USS Callister aired within the present’s fourth season, the episode channeled one other well-known sci-fi collection for inspiration. This time round, the USS Callister sequel will really feel extra like an action-adventure film.
“We undoubtedly leant into the dated really feel of Star Trek for the primary one; this one’s extra motion film, extra of a contemporary strategy,” director Toby Haynes advised SFX Journal.
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker acknowledged the episode’s Star Trek roots and defined how the sequel channels a well-known Star Wars sequel.
“Clearly the primary one was riffing on Star Trek, and this one is barely riffing on Star Wars,” Brooker stated. “We stored saying, ‘What’s distinctive to our premise?’ It’s bizarre since you kind of neglect it’s a sport. To them, it’s actual, clearly. So it performs out on that kind of scale. It feels a bit Return of the Jedi or one thing alongside these strains, as a result of it has to.”
USS Callister was the primary episode of Black Mirror Season 4, which premiered in December 2017. Jesse Plemons starred as Robert Daly, an missed programmer who works for Callister Inc., the corporate behind the favored sport Infinity. Annoyed with how his co-workers deal with him, Robert creates a Star Trek-esque online game with clones of his coworkers. Within the sport, Robert is the captain and dictator of the USS Callister. When Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) arrives within the sport, she works with the crew to cease Robert’s reign of terror.
Milioti, Jimmi Simpson, and Billy Magnussen return for the sequel. Particular plot particulars have been stored below wraps.
Black Mirror Season 7 streams on Netflix on April 10.
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