Songbird, produced by Michael Bay, is a pandemic movie inspired by COVID-19 and the trailer is… well, something.
On Thursday, the first trailer for the pandemic thriller showed a world trapped in lockdown for four years, reaching 8.4 million deaths in a single year.
Songbird takes place in 2024 and stars Riverdale‘s K.J. Apa and Sofia Carson, who play a couple separated by the pandemic and living under martial law.
Apa’s character claims to be immune from the virus, which may help him as he searches for his girlfriend; who has to evacuate her apartment after her neighbour contracts the virus.
“It’s a dystopian, scary world, but it’s a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can’t,” director Adam Mason told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ but her front door and the virus are what separates them.”
On shooting the movie about a pandemic during a pandemic, Mason said the limitations set by COVID-19 guidelines reminded him of prior sets he had worked on.
“I normally do the lighting and the camera work myself,” he said. “So, I’m used to being very close to the actors and filming in this very intimate way that was adequate for filming during the rules and regulations of the lockdown. I found it incredibly liberating… Everyone was just so happy to be involved.”
Mason wrote the script alongside Simon Boyes. The cast also Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Alexandra Daddario, Demi Moore, Peter Stormare and Paul Walter Hauser. Adam Goodman, Invisible Narratives, Catchlight Films and Michael Bay produce the movie.
Watch the new trailer below:
Source: Variety
