Black Mirror Creator Developing Detective Series for Netflix
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Charlie Brooker is set to continue his collaboration with Netflix with a four-episode detective series following Black Mirror. The untitled project is described as a “very serious crime thriller” that will be “staggeringly original.”
The story follows a detective from the northern town of Blakethorpe who travels to London in an attempt to capture a serial killer before more potential victims are murdered. Brooker warns that the series will feature “scowls and blood.”
Paddy Considine (House of the Dragon), Georgina Campbell (Barbarian), and Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) will lead the cast. Campbell previously appeared in the Black Mirror episode “Hang the DJ.”
Brooker serves as creator and co-writer of the series alongside Ben Caudell, Jason Hazeley, Emer Kenny, Daniel Maier, and Joel Morris, with Victoria Asare-Archer also contributing to the scripts. Direction will be handled by Al Campbell, who previously worked with Brooker on Death to 2020.
This is not Brooker’s first foray into crime drama. From 2012 to 2014, he created and wrote the police satire A Touch of Cloth for Sky, starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones.
