‘Black Mirror’ Creator Had ChatGPT Write a ‘Black Mirror’ Episode and It Was ‘S—‘: ‘There’s Not Any Real Original Thought Here’

Zack Sharf Digital News Director In the upcoming comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a down-on-her-luck Uber driver who accepts a job trying to seduce a 19-year-old whose helicopter parents don’t want him heading off to college as a virgin. The task of playing the Oscar winner’s male lead in a raunchy R-rated comedy fell to Andrew Barth Feldman, best known until now for his stint on Broadway in “Dear Evan Hanson.” Feldman was already a student at Harvard University when the offer to join Lawrence in “No Hard Feelings” was made. “I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, ‘That’s our — that’s Percy,”” Lawrence recently told Entertainment Tonight. “Then they were like there’s one complication, he’s supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, ‘Is that a joke?’ He was fully the character, so I called him and said, ‘Andrew, I have really bad news you’re not gonna be able to finish your semester at Harvard.’ He’s gonna have to defer, or whatever college school words are.”

Black Mirror returned with five new episodes in 2023.Created by Charlie Brooker, the dystopian anthology series is known for its satirical swipes at society’s relationship with technology. The show originally began on Channel 4 in 2011, before shifting over to Netflix from season three onwards in 2016.In the show’s sixth season, an episode titled Beyond The Sea follows two astronauts Cliff (Aaron Paul) and David (Josh Hartnett) on a deep space mission, who catch up with their life back home through replica androids.Directed by John Crowley, the episode also stars Kate Mara, Rory Culkin and Auden Thornton.As confirmed to NME, the countryside manor where Cliff and Lana live with their son Henry was filmed in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent during last summer’s heatwave.

Charlie Brooker has responded to a viral theory connecting new Black Mirror episode ‘Mazey Day’ to Twilight.This article contains spoilers for episode four of the new season.Episode four of season six of Brooker’s dystopian series teases the synopsis: “A troubled starlet, Mazey, is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.”The big twist of ‘Mazey Day’ is that – major spoiler alert – Mazey turns into a werewolf.After fans watched the episode, a theory subsequently did the rounds on social media about the episode’s central song, Muse‘s ‘Supermassive Black Hole’, which also famously features in the baseball scene of the werewolves versus vampires film franchise Twilight.“Somebody pointed [the link] out to me,” Brooker told NME before the season six release. “They asked me if it was winking at [Mazey’s fate], which it wasn’t necessarily…”“The wink was something that, if it happened, it happened very subconsciously for all of us,” added executive producer Jessica Rhoades.

Note: The following Zazie Beetz, Danny Ramirez and Clara Rugaar interview discusses major spoilers for “Black Mirror” Season 6, Episode 4: “Mazey Day.”“Black Mirror” Season 6, Episode 4 (titled “Mazey Day”) lifts the veil on the dark side of Hollywood stardom. Zazie Beetz stars as Bo, an invasive paparazzo who will go to any lengths to snap a photo of Mazey Day (Clara Rugaar) — until a devastating hit-and-run unravels the starlet’s glamorous life and success and Bo reconsiders the morality of her profession.

Naman Ramachandran Stage, television and film star Anjana Vasan’s latest role is the lead in the “Demon 79” episode in Season 6 of Charlie Brooker’s hit Netflix series “Black Mirror.” Set in northern England, 1979, Vasan plays a meek sales assistant who is told she must commit terrible acts to prevent disaster in the episode written by Brooker and Bisha K. Ali (“Ms. Marvel”) and directed by Toby Haynes (“Andor”). Paapa Essiedu (“Gangs of London”) has a pivotal role in the episode. “Every episode of ‘Black Mirror’ is different but this one felt just distinctly like trying to do something different,” Vasan told Variety. “And when I read it, I was genuinely surprised. I didn’t know where the story was going to go. And I thought the dynamic between Paapa’s character and myself was so interesting and so surprising. I just wanted to be a part of that world, I wanted to go into 1979 and just explore her journey.”

Note: The following Annie Murphy interview discusses spoilers for “Black Mirror” Season 6 episode “Joan Is Awful.”“Black Mirror” Season 6 star Annie Murphy was stoked to film the memorable church scene in “Joan is Awful,” despite its “gnarly” nature.In the episode, an ordinary woman named Joan (Murphy) is shocked to discover a dramatized version of her life has become the subject of a new TV show on popular streaming service Streamberry, with Joan portrayed by Salma Hayek (who is playing herself). Except, instead of the real Hayek, it’s a computer-generated likeness licensed out by the “From Dusk Til Dawn” actress.Joan learns that she has no legal recourse after signing her rights away by accepting the terms and conditions of the app, and takes another route to solving the problem by doing something outrageous in hopes that Hayek objects to her image being used in such a way.Cue the church scene.

Salma Hayek has admitted that she was worried about playing herself in the new season of Black Mirror.The actress appears in the sixth season of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology series, starring in an episode titled ‘Joan Is Awful’.In the episode, a woman named Joan (Annie Murphy) learns that her life has been turned into a TV show on a Netflix-style streaming service, with Salma Hayek playing her.Speaking to Radio Times about her role, Hayek said that Black Mirror had gifted her “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play an interpretation of myself”.“I got to explore the concepts and clichés people have about me and be self-deprecating,” she said.“It’s as if I created an alter ego where I could do the most disgusting, grotesque things that you would never do in real life… and have permission to do that.”Hayek added: “There are so many moments that shocked me in the script. There is one huge one that I had to come to terms with, and made me ask myself, ‘Do I really want to do this? Am I going to get in trouble?’’”‘Joan Is Awful’ co-stars Michael Cera, Ben Barnes and Rob Delaney.

As Netflix viewers finished tuning into the first episode of Black Mirror's new season, many soon took to social media to make the same comment.

Naman Ramachandran Charlie Brooker, creator of hit Netflix series “Black Mirror,” has weighed in again on the debate around AI. Earlier this month, Brooker had revealed to Empire magazine that he went full “Black Mirror” by asking the artificial intelligence chatbot known as ChatGPT to write an episode of his beloved anthology series. The final results were “shit,” according to Brooker. On Friday, Brooker was asked by Sky News if U.K. politicians were doing enough about AI. In response, Brooker joked: “If Rishi Sunak had been replaced by AI, I probably wouldn’t have noticed. Actually, he’d be a good character to pop up like, you know the paper clip that used to pop up in Microsoft Word? I’d like a little Rishi Sunak that pops up and goes, ‘It looks like you’re writing about how depressing the government is – would you like some help with that’?'”

Black Mirror returns with five new episodes this month.Created by Charlie Brooker, the dystopian anthology series has taken a dark satirical swipe at various technologies over the years, from dating apps, surveillance to virtual reality.As per a synopsis, the show’s sixth season is described as “the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet”. Cast members include Aaron Paul, Ben Barnes, Annie Murphy, Clara Rugaard, Danny Ramirez, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara and Michael Cera.The show’s fifth season was released in June 2019, which featured three episodes.

Black Mirror is back with its sixth season.Created by Charlie Brooker, the dystopian anthology series has taken a dark satirical swipe at various technologies over the years, from dating apps, surveillance to virtual reality.As per a synopsis, the show’s sixth season is described as “the most unpredictable, unclassifiable and unexpected yet”. Cast members include Aaron Paul, Ben Barnes, Annie Murphy, Clara Rugaard, Danny Ramirez, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara and Michael Cera.The show’s sixth season features five episodes in total.

Charlie Brooker’s anthology series, Black Mirror, has been quietly working on its sixth series ready for release to hardcore fans today. The show, which first aired in 2011, has already produced quite the next level and bizarre stories, from Miley Cyrus’ Ashley O AI doll in series five to the ‘Hang the DJ’ dating app ep in season four. However, in the run-up to the season six drop, Charlie was drip feeding fans teasers of what they could expect.

Annie Murphy can’t believe she gets to star in “Black Mirror” season 6 alongside Salma Hayek.

Black Mirror is known for its dystopian satire, the show has also featured some notable music choices over its six seasons.In the show’s fifth season, Miley Cyrus released original song ‘On A Roll’ under the character moniker of Ashley O, while episode San Junipero is synonymous with track ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’ by Belinda Carlisle.The sixth season similarly features an eclectic soundtrack, including tracks by Saweetie, The Specials and Boomtown Rats.The episode features track ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ by Muse, which was the lead single from the band’s 2006 album ‘Black Holes And Revelations’.You can check out the track below.Other songs in the episode include ‘1 Thing’ by Amerie, ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’’ by Scissor Sisters, and Jo Dee Messina track ‘My Give A Damn’s Busted’.Starring Clara Rugaard, Danny Ramirez and Zazie Beetz, Mazey Day follows “a troubled starlet” who is “dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident,” as per a synopsis.Other cast members in the sixth season include Annie Murphy, Ben Barnes, Michael Cera, Rob Delaney, Aaron Paul, Josh Hartnett, Rory Culkin and Salma Hayek Pinault.Black Mirror originally began on Channel 4 in 2011, before shifting over to Netflix from season three onwards in 2016.

Warning: spoilers for season 6 of “Black Mirror”. 

Josh Hartnett’s family has already told him they won’t be watching his latest work.

Salma Hayek is among the stars appearing in the new season of “Black Mirror”, the acclaimed Netflix anthology series that takes a “Twilight Zone”-style approach to the more dystopian aspects of technology’s impact on society.

When we talk about the future of the world when it comes to technology and, specifically, the rise of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), you can’t help but think that we are perhaps living in a real episode of “Black Mirror.” And wouldn’t you know it? The creator of “Black Mirror” performed a bit of an experiment with A.I. when it came to crafting an episode of Season 6.

AI isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Chris Hemsworth told GQ UK that he’s been thinking about death a lot more lately as his forties quickly approach and in the aftermath of his “Avengers” co-star Jeremy Renner suffering a near-fatal accident in January. Renner was hospitalized with blunt chest trauma, over 30 broken bones and more after his snow plow ran him over at the start of the year. “We were all on our ‘Avengers’ text chain, we were all chatting. And it was wild,” Hemsworth said about the immediate aftermath of Renner’s accident. “None of us really knew how serious it was. I think anything like that, it’s an immediate realization of ‘Wow, any of us can go at any minute…’”