KJ Apa and Sofia Carson to star in grim pandemic movie produced by Michael Bay
In May, we reported that Michael Bay was going to produce a movie called Songbird that takes a Paranormal Activity or Cloverfield-style approach to a global pandemic, telling a story about citizens in the virus-ravaged Los Angeles of 2022 where lockdowns were rolled back too early and the virus came back stronger than ever. In May, we described this as “depressing bleak,” seeing as how we were living in the middle of an actual global pandemic and the idea of lockdowns being rolled back too early was a very real concern. That was in May, and we thought it seemed a little too frighteningly plausible. It is now July, lockdowns in many states were rolled back too early, and the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus has skyrocketed. Despite that, our signature withering snark was once again ignored by Hollywood and production on Bay’s Songbird—which is directed by Adam Mason—continues unabated.
