Airdate: Death to 2020

Tomorrow Netflix will unleash a surprise new mockumentary from Charlie Brooker, Death to 2020.

The cast includes Samuel L Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Tracey Ullman, Leslie Jones, Black Mirror’s Cristin Milioti and Stranger Things’ Joe Keery.

According to Radio Times, Brooker began working with a team of writers on the special in the summer of 2020, but the script remained fluid, changing and evolving as the months went by. Filming took place over just 10 days in late November – around a month before the film’s premiere date.

“The main stories that we focus on are huge global stories – coronavirus or Black Lives Matter or the US election,” says Jones, Brooker’s partner in production outfit Broke And Bones, of the unique production. “Those are big stories that affect the whole world, so we knew what the structure of the show was going to be, but maybe with a few surprises along the way.”

“It’s tricky to do something where it’s a moving target and you’re still in the thick of it,” Brooker adds. “It’s been quite a reactive script, the script has changed a lot as we go through – there were some things we could try and pre-empt but you can’t completely predict… and we didn’t know what the ending was!”

Sunday December 27 on Netflix.