- Original name: Songbird
- Country: USA
- Genre: thriller, drama, romance, comedy
- Producer: A. Mason
- World premiere: 2021
- Starring: S. Carson, K. Robinson, B. Whitford, A. Daddario, P. Stormare, P. Walter Hauser, D. Moore, J. Ortega, C. Jay Up, L. McHugh, and others.
Check out the pandemic thriller Songbird starring Riverdale star Kay Jay Up. He played Niko, a front-line courier who, due to his immunity to COVID, travels around town on a bicycle all day delivering goods. The tape will take us to the near future, when a pandemic will devastate the world. Watch the poignant trailer for Songbird for an exact release date to be announced in 2021. It seems like something crazy awaits us!
Plot
It's 2024. The COVID-23 virus has managed to mutate: the death rate has exceeded 50 percent, people are literally "burned out" at a high speed, and the world is in its fourth year of forced isolation. Infected Americans are forced to leave their homes and go to quarantine camps.
The main characters are the courier Niko, who works on the front line and roams around Los Angeles on a bicycle, delivering deliveries, and the girl Sarah, who is stuck at home due to a four-year quarantine. And even in this exaggerated version of the current hellish landscape, where curfews and martial law have been declared, they fall in love, even though they never saw each other due to isolation protocols.
Production
Directed by Adam Mason (Into Darkness, The Hangman).
Voiceover team:
- Screenplay: Simon Boyes ("Not Safe for the Job", "Worse Than Lies," "Enemy in Reflection"), A. Mason;
- Producers: Michael Bay (The Rock, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, The Bad Boys), Marsay A. Brown (Get Out), Jason Clarke (Space: Space and Time, Space: Possible worlds "," Orville ") and others;
- Cinematography: Jacques Jouffre (Bloodshot Escape Plan 3);
- Artists: Jennifer Spence ("The Curse of the Nun", "The Curse of Annabelle 3", "Judgment Night 5", "Shazam!"), Lisa Norcia ("Obsession", "Reanimation").
- Catchlight Films
- Invisible Narratives
- Platinum dunes
- STX Films
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA.
Thanks to the security measures taken, the cast and crew were able to safely complete production on the film and even noticed a couple of benefits of working in a relatively empty version of the city.
“We were able to get the craziest footage that even if I had $ 100 million I would not have gotten,” director Adam Mason says in an interview with EW. Indeed, under normal conditions, you cannot just take and close downtown Los Angeles. "
Actors
Leading roles:
- Sofia Carson (Tiny: Violetta's New Life, Austin & Ellie, Falsification, Spider-Man);
- Craig Robinson ("Office #", "Friends", "Brooklyn 9-9", "What Are We Doing in the Shadows", "Mr. Robot");
- Bradley Whitford (My Life, Little Manhattan, Call of the Wild, Get Out, Scent of a Woman);
- Alexandra Daddario (Why Women Kill, The Sopranos, True Detective, White Collar, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia);
- Peter Stormare (Dancing in the Dark, Bad Boys 2, Fargo, Figurine Noisy on the Platform, 8mm);
- Paul Walter Hauser (Kingdom, Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Cobra Kai);
- Demi Moore ("Ghost," "A Few Nice Guys," "Indecent Proposition," "If These Walls Could Talk");
- Jenna Ortega (You, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation New York, Beyond the Fence);
- KJ Apa ("Riverdale", "A Dog's Life");
- Leah McHugh ("Watchman", "American").
Interesting Facts
Did you know:
- SAG-AFTRA issued a "No Work" order during the filming of Songbird, ordering the crew to refuse any work on the film. SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild) is the American Federation of Television and Radio Workers, an American trade union representing approximately 160,000 film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, sound recording artists, singers, voice actors and other media professionals around the world.
- Songbird (2021) is the first film to go into production in Los Angeles since the city closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
