In what year did Netflix release the interactive film “Bandersnatch”? The answer is 2018.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch premiered on Netflix on December 28, 2018. Its release was announced only one day earlier, after months of speculation that Netflix was developing a major interactive project connected to Black Mirror.
The film follows Stefan Butler, a young programmer adapting a sprawling fantasy novel into a video game in 1984. At several points, viewers choose between options on screen, and those decisions alter the story, scenes, and endings. This branching structure made Bandersnatch substantially more complex to produce than a conventional Black Mirror episode.
Bandersnatch was written by series creator Charlie Brooker and directed by David Slade, with Fionn Whitehead playing Stefan. It was originally planned as part of the fifth television series, but its scale led Netflix to release it as a standalone film. The fifth season eventually arrived in June 2019, several months after Bandersnatch.