Anthony Mackie & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II have been cast in season 5 of the Netflix Emmy Award-winning anthology sci-fi series, Black Mirror. As usual, Netflix and the creative team behind Black Mirror are being very secretive about the upcoming season.
Created and written by Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror employs a different cast of actors to explore themes linked to the collision of mankind with the unforgiving technology they have created. These themes are explored in each individual episode.
Season four featured episodes including space thriller “USS Callister” starring Breaking Bad‘s Jesse Plemons, romcom “Hang The DJ”, Maxine Peake-fronted black and white nightmare “Metalhead”, Iceland-set “Crocodile”, Jodie Foster-directed “Arkangel” and Colm McCarthy’s “Black Museum”.
Anthony Mackie was most recently seen on the big screen in Miss Bala and The Hate U Give. He is, of course, a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War & Avengers: Infinity War. Mackie will next be seen in the second season of Netflix’s Altered Carbon as the lead Takeshi Kovacs.
Abdul-Mateen II, last seen as Black Manta in Aquaman, is in talks to take on the lead role in MGM/Jordan Peele’s Candyman sequel/reboot and will be seen in HBO’s Watchmen.
