Andrea Riseborough is rumored to co-star in an upcoming episode of Black Mirror season 4.
Netflix announced that an upcoming Black Mirror season 4 episode will be directed John Hillcoat (Triple 9, Lawless). According to rumors, the episode will be called “Crocodile.”
Hillcoat made his feature debut with the film Ghosts...of the Civil Dead and followed that up with the critically acclaimed movie The Proposition. He also directed the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, which starred Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron. Hillcoat is also known for his collaborations with his teenage friend Nick Cave, who wrote and performed music for the director’s films and helmed some of the musician’s music videos. Hillcoat also worked with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, and Robert Plant.
Black Mirror takes episode-long looks at the paranoia of the technical age where everyone and everything is wired together. While no details about the plot have come out, Tracking Board reports that the Black Mirror season 4 episode will feature two female protagonists and that Andrea Riseborough (Birdman) is in talks to play one of them.
British actress Riseborough recently co-starred in Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford. She is slated to appear in The Death of Stalin, the upcoming political satire that will be directed by Armando Iannucci, who created HBO’s Veep. She will also be featured the independent thriller Nancy; Burden, which will be about the Ku Klux Klan and Battle of the Sexes, Fox Searchlight’s movie about the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Black Mirror will air as two seasons of six episodes each. Black Mirror is executive produced by House of Tomorrow’s Charlie Brooker, who created the series, and Annabel Jones, who are also showrunners for the new episodes.
“I’ve always been a fan of one-off, quirky, weird stories you’d see on The Twilight Zone or Tales of the Unexpected,” Brooker told Variety in a recent interview. “Also, the BBC would put on one-off plays that were often controversial or incredibly depressing. I missed those shows where you would run to someone and say, ‘This guy was the last man on earth, and he broke his glasses, and it was amazing.’”
It was previoulsy announced that Jodie Foster will direct an episode starring Rosemarie DeWitt. Foster made her TV directorial debut for Orange is the New Black and also directed episodes of House of Cards. Foster’s first director gig came in 1991 when she helmed and starred in Little Man Tate. She also directed 1995’s Home for the Holidays, The Beaver, starring Mel Gibson and Jennifer Lawrence in 2011 and Money Monster, which starred George Clooney and Julia Roberts, in 2014.
DeWitt will next be seen in La La Land with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. She recently wrapped production on Jamie Dagg’s independent thriller Sweet Virginia. DeWitt starred in The Last Tycoon for Amazon and was the remake of Poltergeist.
Black Mirror season 4 will premiere exclusively worldwide on Netflix in 2017.
SOURCE: VARIETY