10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Director Tackling New BLACK MIRROR Episode For Netflix

After hearing nothing but praise about Black Mirror for years, I finally carved out time and watched the whole series couple of months ago. What a ride — the show is intense, intelligent, powerful, and thought-provoking, not to mention beautifully written, designed, directed, and acted. (Mick loves it.) So it's no surprise that one of the most talented up-and-coming filmmakers in Hollywood has been tapped to direct one of the new episodes of the series.

Deadline reports that 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg will helm one of the new season's standalone episodes, though there's no word about who will star in it or what the plot will be. Frankly, it doesn't really matter: Trachtenberg is a spectacular fit for this show, which has been compared to a modern day Twilight Zone. His Cloverfield movie drew those same comparisons, and it's clear he has not only a great visual eye but a talent for telling powerful stories, going all the way back to his short film More Than You Can Chew.

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker is back as showrunner for the twelve new episodes of the show, which he's written. Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, and Malachi Kirby have been confirmed to appear, and Trachtenberg joins directors Joe Wright (Hanna, Pan) and Jakob Verbruggen (House of Cards) as the only announced directors of the new season thus far.

You can read my two-part interview with Trachtenberg about 10 Cloverfield Lane here and here.