Black Mirror season 4 will star Rosemary DeWitt with Jodie Foster behind the lens.
Netflix’s anthology series Black Mirror season 4 announced that Jodie Foster will direct an episode starring Rosemarie DeWitt. The critically lauded Black Mirror’s season 4 is scheduled to begin production later this year.
Netflix gave the green light for 12 episodes of Black Mirror last year. The series 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.’”
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 takes episode-long looks at the paranoia of the technical age where everyone and everything is wired together.
Black Mirror season 4 will premiere exclusively worldwide on Netflix in 2017.
SOURCE: VARIETY