As part of Geeked Week, the annually celebrated fandom festival by Netflix, an extensive cast list for six new episodes of the dark anthology series Black Mirror have been revealed, with series creator Charlie Brooker offering clues into what to expect from the series, calling the casting “embarrassingly stacked.”
The series, which debuted on Channel 4 on 4 December 2011, will feature, quite uniquely, a sequel to USS: Callister, the sinister Star Trek story from the fourth series.
Among those billed to appear include Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who), Paul Giamatti (Billions, The Holdovers), Milanka Brooks (Mum And I Don’t Talk Anymore), Awkwafina (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine), and Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation).
The cast list are detailed below – courtesy of the Netflix Tudum website, with a few familiar names returning from USS Callister.
- Awkwafina (Jackpot!)
- Milanka Brooks (Mum And I Don’t Talk Anymore)
- Peter Capaldi (Criminal Record)
- Emma Corrin (Deadpool & Wolverine)
- Patsy Ferran (Firebrand)
- Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
- Lewis Gribben (Blade Runner 2099)
- Osy Ikhile (Citadel)
- Rashida Jones (Sunny)
- Siena Kelly (Domino Day)
- Billy Magnussen (Road House)
- Rosy McEwen (Blue Jean)
- Cristin Milioti (The Penguin)
- Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids)
- Issa Rae (Barbie)
- Paul G. Raymond (Horrible Histories)
- Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish)
- Jimmi Simpson (Westworld)
- Harriet Walter (Succession)
“We’ve got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional,” Brooker said, further considering the casting for the seventh series as “embarrassingly stacked.”
The new series has been described as “a little bit OG Black Mirror” and added the episodes would return “to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”
