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Print The science-fiction thriller “Songbird” has already earned some notoriety: first for being one of the earliest film productions to be shot in Los Angeles during the pandemic; and then for a trailer that made the movie look like an overblown, irresponsible piece of anti-lockdown propaganda. The good news is that “Songbird” is nowhere near as incendiary as it initially seemed. It’s actually a fairly thoughtful dystopian melodrama, and cleverly staged — if ultimately a bit under-baked. Director Adam Mason (who co-wrote the script with Simon Boyes) has set the story in 2024, ima...

Copy to clipboard Earlier this year, on the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown, writers Adam Mason and Simon Boyes spent the day crafting a 12-page outline. The eventual picture that would be born out of the 2020 pandemic would become the action-thriller Songbird, which chronicles the lives of people just trying to survive the film’s near future scenario. But it wasn’t always supposed to be that way, at least according to co-writer/director Adam Mason. In fact, the struggles of this Michael Bay-produced film were going to be much more monstrous. Literally, there was going to be a m...

Based on the real-life current pandemic and produced by Michael Bay, 'Songbird' director Adam Mason tells us how he shot a movie in lockdown

With all the nuance of a troll screaming "First!" on a message board, Adam Mason's "Songbird" is a film that arguably shouldn't exist. As legitimate concerns rise about people refusing to take the vaccine that could save us from the nightmare that is 2020, Mason and producer Michael Bay take the national anxiety about COVID-19 and warp it into (allegedly) escapist filmmaking. I’m not big on the “too soon” argument of criticism, but there’s something undeniably off about a movie that uses COVID as a device on a day when more people will die from the disease than on 9/11. A talented fi...

Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Invisible Narratives, Catchlight Studios, and Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes, the filmmakers behind newly released feature film Songbird, announced today that they will direct a portion of the proceeds from the film toward a donation to World Central Kitchen (WCK) to support COVID-19 food relief efforts. The first feature film made in Los Angeles during the COVID-19 pandemic, Songbird will be released today across all video on demand platforms. In this thriller romance set four years in the future, the virus ha...