Songbird movie netflix series#
The film is produced by the famed director of movies like the Transformer series and Armageddon, Micheal Bay. The ensemble cast features Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Alexandra Daddario, Demi Moore and more. That’s right, we’re supposed to care about a Romeo and Juliet duo played by Riverdale’s KJ Apa and Disney’s Descendants’ Sofia Carson in the lead roles.
It’s Romeo and Juliet, but they’re separated by her front door and by the virus, ” says director Adam Mason. “ It’s a dystopian, scary world, but it’s a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can’t. The movie is set in 2024, wherein the coronavirus has mutated to COVID-23 and can affect brain tissues, which is so frustratingly dystopic that it isn’t even dramatic anymore, it’s just clearly an opportunistic grab at the attention of people who, need I remind you, are still very much in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.Īs per the trailer, the world is in its 4th year of lockdown, the virus has a 50% mortality rate (compared to the actual mortality rate of coronavirus currently, which is at 3-4%), millions of Americans die every year, police point a gun at anyone they see outside, quarantine camps become a thing, and in between all this, a love story evolves. ‘Songbird’, a movie based on the COVID-19 pandemic, was created and filmed in the middle of a pandemic, with a plot that is specifically meant to play on the fear of millions of people who have spent the past few nightmarish months in worry and disarray. The first trailer of a movie that we arguably didn’t ask for and don’t need was released online last week, featuring everything that’ll make conspiracy theorists online cry tears of vindication and cause the rest of us to be equal parts scared and annoyed.