PRODUCTION BLACK MIRROR
Into Infinity , a follow-up to the fan favourite that follows the employees of Callister Inc, the company behind an immersive MMOG simulated-reality game called Infinity . Pehrsson says that it wasn’t just fans who couldn’t let go of the OG episode after it aired. “We were talking about doing a sequel almost as soon as it was going out,” he remembers. “Toby kept saying this was probably the best ‘pilot’ episode of a TV show he’d ever seen. Although it had this perfect ending, there was always a part of us thinking: it would be fun to find out what they’re getting up to next...” In fact, they came within a whisper of creating an entire spinoff series, Pehrsson reveals. The crew were gearing up to shoot at the end of 2023, but then the SAG-AFTRA strike stopped play. When it came to rounding up the all-star cast to try again, schedules wouldn’t allow for it. “It was a big problem because we had to get these five really famous, in-demand actors back in the same space again. It’s not something we’d had to deal with on Black Mirror before – the cast usually only have to commit to a couple of weeks, so you can get these amazing A-listers and, generally, if people are free they will do it. In this case, the schedules were so tricky we had to rethink it, so the showrunners decided to make a feature-length episode instead.” Visually, the tone evolves from the saturated sixties vibe of the original
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