Charlie Brooker Making Netflix Collection With Paddy Considine, Lena Headey
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker has landed his subsequent Netflix challenge.
Brooker is behind an untitled four-part detective collection starring Home of the Dragon lead Paddy Considine, Recreation of Thrones star Lena Headey and Georgina Campbell, who labored with Brooker on Black Mirror’s “Grasp the DJ” episode.
The present’s logline calls it a “profoundly critical, stunningly authentic crime thriller by which a tormented detective from the Northern metropolis of Bleakford ventures all the way down to London on a mission to catch a ritualistic serial killer earlier than they run out of individuals to kill. Accommodates blood and frowning.”
The time period “profoundly critical” is clearly getting used tongue in cheek and Brooker’s quote concerning the present reads: “I’m past thrilled to be saying these phrases for the press launch. I’ve dreamt of offering a quote ever since I used to be a younger foetus, and now right here I’m doing it. I’d pinch myself, however like all of us, I’m terrified that if I try this, I would get up and uncover 2025 has all been a magical dream. Please watch my present. I’m begging you.”
Brooker created the present and has written with Ben Caudell, Jason Hazeley, Emer Kenny, Daniel Maier and Joel Morris, with further materials by Victoria Asare Archer. Brooker can be government producing alongside Black Mirror EPs Annabel Jones and Jessica Rhoades. Mark Kinsella is co-EP, Richard Webb is producer and Al Campbell is directing.
The present will likely be produced by Netflix, a spokesman for the streamer mentioned, quite than a selected British manufacturing firm. A number of weeks again, we revealed Brooker and Jones had left their Netflix-owned manufacturing firm Broke & Bones after 5 years. Deadline first revealed the $100M settlement in 2020, which we famous on the time was structured over 5 years.
Black Mirror Season 7 was Brooker’s earlier Netflix challenge and launched in April 2025. Episodes featured the likes of Rashida Jones, Issa Rae and Paul Giamatti. No phrase but on Season 8.
