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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch premiered on Netflix on the 28th of December 2018. Its release date was officially announced just one day before it went live. Netflix did not confirm the film's interactive nature until the day of release, to prevent viewers from forming preconceived notions about the experience.
Charlie Brooker, creator of the Black Mirror series, wrote the script. David Slade directed the film, having previously directed the Black Mirror episode "Metalhead." Annabel Jones served as executive producer alongside Brooker.
Netflix designated five "main" endings, each with internal variants. Producer Russell McLean counted between ten and twelve distinct endings overall, and director David Slade described a smaller number of especially difficult-to-reach conclusions as "golden eggs."
Chooseco, the company that republishes the Choose Your Own Adventure series, sued Netflix for trademark infringement over use of the phrase "choose your own adventure" in Bandersnatch. Chooseco claimed that licensing negotiations begun in 2016 never produced an agreement. Netflix and Chooseco settled the case privately in November 2020.
Netflix removed Bandersnatch in May 2025 as part of a major interface update that eliminated interactive content functionality from its television apps. In December 2023, then-vice president of Netflix Games Mike Verdu had described the interactive technology as "very limiting" and said Netflix was no longer building such experiences.
Bandersnatch contains 150 minutes of unique footage divided into 250 segments, yielding more than one trillion possible paths. The average viewing runs approximately 90 minutes, though the quickest path ends after just 40 minutes.