{"id":35996,"date":"2013-02-11T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=35996"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:47:29","slug":"robert-downey-jr-buys-black-mirror-film-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/robert-downey-jr-buys-black-mirror-film-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey Jr buys Black Mirror film rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_36003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36003\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/35996\/robert-downey-jr-buys-black-mirror-film-rights\/attachment\/the-entire-history-of-you-eyes\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36003\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36003\" title=\"The Entire History of You\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Entire-History-of-You-Eyes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Entire-History-of-You-Eyes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Entire-History-of-You-Eyes-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toby Kebbell and Jodie Whittaker starred in &#x2018;The Entire History of You&#x2019;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Robert Downey Jr. has bought the movie rights to the first series episode of Charlie Brooker&#x2019;s&#xA0;<em>Black Mirror<\/em> &#x2018;The Entire History Of You&#x2019;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bleeding Cool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com\/2013\/02\/11\/robert-downey-jr-options-the-superb-black-mirror-episode-the-entire-history-of-you-for-a-movie\/\">Bleeding Cool<\/a> are reporting that Tony Stark himself fought off stiff competition (including George Clooney) to pick up the rights to the episode, which was written by Jesse Armstrong (<em>Four Lions<\/em>, <em>In the Loop<\/em>, <em>Peep Show<\/em>) and was set in a near-future in which everything you see is recorded and available for replay at a push of a button.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Kebbell (<em>Wrath Of The Titans<\/em>, <em>Dead Man&#x2019;s Shoes<\/em>) and Jodie Whittaker (<em>Attack The Block<\/em>) played the couple who were forced to face some uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series 2 of <em>Black Mirror<\/em> starts 11 February 2013 at 10:00pm on Channel 4. You can <a title=\"Black Mirror\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Charlie-Brookers-Black-Mirror-DVD\/dp\/B006B893B2\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360604450&sr=8-1&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy the first series of <em>Black Mirror<\/em> on DVD for &#xA3;7.75 on Amazon.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Man star has movie rights to Black Mirror episode &#8216;The Entire History of You&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":36003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3,207],"tags":[2985,3011,557],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/The-Entire-History-of-You-Eyes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}