‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ is a Choose Your-Own Adventure movie with five fucking hours of footage

Black Mirror getting real, real weird with it. I mean, a fucking choose-your-own-adventure movie? Five hours of footage? Wild.

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Netflix is preparing a belated Christmas present with the slow unveiling of the highly anticipated Black Mirror movie, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. We’re steadily learning more about this mystery Black Mirror project, which has already been reported to be a choose-your-own-adventure movie. Now, new reports suggest that this movie could contain about five hours worth of footage, which we could see as soon as this week.

The official Bandersnatch landing page is now live on Netflix, suggesting that the choose-your-own-adventure movie would drop before the end of the year, reportedly offering roughly 312 minutes of footage, which is over five hours.

A new leak (via Esquire) from the Korean Media Rating Board appears to confirm the plot and cast of the film, which is due to be released on December 28, 2018. It will not be connected to Black Mirror season 5, which is expected in drop in early 2019.

While 312 minutes of footage seems excessive, it does confirm early reports that an interactive Black Mirror project was in the works. On the Netflix page, some subscribers are getting a 2 minute runtime for the project while others are seeing a runtime of 90 minutes. The latter is more likely: a 90-minute official runtime with 312 minutes of choose-your-own-adventure possibilities.

The movie’s alleged official plot description reads:

“A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game. Soon, reality and virtual world are mixed and start to create confusion.”