Black Mirror cinematographer reveals why planned USS Callister series never happened

Lost in space.The massively popular “USS Callister” episode of Netflix’s “Black Mirror” from 2017 was originally going to be made into a full series, but instead it became a sequel that was released last month as part of Season 7.Cinematographer Stephan Pehrsson is now revealing why the planned series based on the “Star Trek”-spoofed episode never happened.“There was just so many complications.Even like a year after [the first one]… I’m good friends with the director, Toby Haynes, and he would come in and go, ‘Oh I think they’re planning like an eight-part series,’ and [I said], ‘Oh, that sounds amazing.

I’d be loved to be involved,'” Pehrsson, 49, recalled in an exclusive interview with the Post.“And then suddenly like a year later [Haynes said], ‘Oh, they’re doing a four-part series,'” he continued.“It kept sort of developing and actually I think like a year before we were due to start, we were almost going to make a three-part series.

It was that close.And then things moved around and then it became a feature length special instead, which probably was the right fit for it.”While he “would have loved” to make a series out of “USS Callister,” it was too difficult to reunite the cast for a lengthier project.“There was a lot about getting the cast back together, you know, sort of finding a gap that was big enough,” the Emmy nominee explained.

“When it was a three-part series, I think we needed like 12 weeks or something like that, and getting everybody together in that amount of time was really, really, really tricky.”“So I think what we got in the end was six weeks, and then some of the cast were there for six, and some were there for four, some were there for two.And that sort of just fit a bit better with what we were able to get,” said Pehrsson.

“Everybody is doing so well and they’re so popular, you know, so it just made sense.”“USS Callister” starred Cristin Milioti, Jesse Plemons, J...