Black Mirror: Bandersnatch co-creator Charlie Brooker ‘doesn’t know’ how many endings are in interactive Netflix film
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Since its release on Friday, fans have been desperately trying to navigate the vast world of Black Mirror’s interactive film Bandersnatch, thanks to its multiple endings.
And show co-creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, as well as producer Russell McLean, seem to be just as torn about the number of ways the
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on Saturday, the screenwriter, 47, said: ‘There were quite heated debates about what constitutes an ending.’
‘There’s a school of thought that says any time it stops and you go back, that’s an ending. In Bandersnatch, there are endings that are really abrupt that are still endings, in my mind.’
His fellow showrunner claimed there were ‘five definitive endings’, while the film’s producer went one step further by suggesting there are ten to 12.
But Brooker stood firm, as he told the publication: ‘My answer to the question of how many endings there are is: All of them.’
According to the film’s director David
Slade, there are some endings and hidden secrets that are so hard to
find he thinks some viewers may ‘never see’ them. He explained:
‘There are scenes that some people just will never see and we had to
make sure that we were OK with that. We actually shot a scene that we
can’t access.’
