Bandersnatch Creator Has Harsh Words For Film’s Critics

Bandersnatch creator Charlie Brooker issued some harsh words to critics of the film, telling them to “f*ck off” in an interview with the Huffington Post.

“[There are] some people that are like, ‘I don’t wanna make decisions,’ ‘I don’t want to do any of it’… well, f*ck off, then. Do something else!” Brooker said. “And then there’s some people who think, ‘Oh, it’s too simple as a game’ or ‘games have done this before’ – well, this isn’t on a gaming platform, it’s on Netflix. I’m well aware of what a computer game is, thanks.”

“Some people just want to be told one story, but this is designed where you’re going to experience more than one ending to get a sense of the whole. We don’t expect you to do all of them, it’s just the more you do, hopefully the more fun an experience you’ll have. But generally speaking, it’s been the reaction that you would want. More people have done all of it than I would have possibly thought, because I thought most people would do about 20%. That’s what I kept saying [in grumpy voice], ‘People aren’t even going to see most of this.’ I said it in that voice, as well.”

Beyond critics, Netflix also has been hit with a $25 million lawsuit from the company behind the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, claiming that the concept of Bandersnatch was stolen from them.