Inside Black Mirror: The Illustrated Oral History

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Since its shocking debut, Black Mirror has steadily grown to become a global phenomenon.

Over four series and nineteen films, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones take us on the Black Mirror journey. Told oral history style, they are joined by the voices of their many collaborators, including Bryce Dallas Howard, Jon Hamm, Jodie Foster, Jodie Whittaker, Mackenzie Davis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alex Lawther, Letitia Wright and dozens more.

Making boundary-pushing television isn’t easy. Each standalone episode is a challenging leap into the unknown for the viewer — and the creators. This is the definitive and unfiltered account of how they did it.

Doubt. I’ve been writing for years, but even now, sitting down in front of a blank page still floods me with crippling doubt. Which is probably why I put off writing this foreword until the publishers wept.

Writing a script involves constantly ignoring a whiny little voice in your head telling you to stop, and attempting to encourage a more cheerful voice urging you to press on. For me the trick is to try to picture the finished film in my head, and describe what I’m seeing and hearing. It’s a bit like wishing a world into reality. What follows is an oddly magical process in which that imaginary world gradually becomes real, via a series of waypoints – the first design sketches, the first read-through, the first day of shooting, the first rough cut. Every one of these events still shocks me a little. Something that only existed in your head now exists in the world, like an imaginary friend suddenly ringing your doorbell.

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