![]() ![]() Greasley: I was remarking in my neighborhood that the whole area seems to be currently taken over by crows. In terms of the soundscape, the pandemic has changed dramatically, what was the pandemic sound to you? Jon Greasley: It got shut down before they started filming, but that got resolved before the initial shoot date. ![]() That’s the thing, this hadn’t been done before, so you were making it up as you went along, and the production did get shut down for a day or two, didn’t it? Health department step in? Is the union going to step in? We didn’t know if we were even going to get this movie made. We didn’t know if anyone was going to get sick. ![]() As far as filmmaking, it was brand new territory. We were still getting our feet wet as a society when it came to COVID. The more unknowns there were, the better. He asked if we were interested based on all those unknowns, and of course, we were. We’re going to be the first production that’s going to try and shoot during COVID, we’re not quite sure how we’re going to do it, but we’re going to try and get it shot in 17 days.’ He said, ‘I’ve got this great project that’s got these great people involved. In the opening scene of the movie with the voices from around the world, the idea was to make sure as much of that was shown as possible.Īs far as the workflow, the producer Jason Clark and we had worked together on “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,” he was the one who called us. Gregory King: We wanted to get the message that there was a pandemic happening. That might have given a shallow movie some much-needed depth, or at least felt ambitious.With the lockdown, the soundscape of Los Angeles has changed so much from traffic to planes to even birds, so what did you discuss with Michael and Adam about what this would sound like? It should be noted that the filmmakers were keen to use real-life death as a backdrop but don’t have the courage to approach anything in terms of politics or social issues. All of the characters who have barely shared actual screen time are loosely tied together in a movie that’s ultimately incredibly thin on plot in the end. Nico races through Los Angeles to get an immunity bracelet like his to save her. Of course, Sara’s poor abuelita gets the disease and it looks like she’s going to be shuttled off to the Q-Zone never to be seen again. At least he seems to be having a good time. So is the slimy Emmett Harland, the enforcer when people get sick, played with B-movie relish by Peter Stormare. William is married to Piper ( Demi Moore) and is the father of Emma ( Lia McHugh), he’s clearly found a way to profit while the world has fallen apart. Yes, social encounters involve a face shield and mask at first, but not for long. ![]() It’s how a musician named May ( Alexandra Daddario) communicates with her fans, including a recluse named Dozer ( Paul Walter Hauser) and a power player named William ( Bradley Whitford), who happens to be sleeping with May. Nico has a girlfriend named Sara ( Sofia Carson), who lives with her grandmother (Elpidia Carrilo), but the star-crossed lovers only really get to communicate through FaceTime and closed doors. He wears a bracelet that affirms his immunity status and allows him safe passage, typically under the GPS-guided instruction of his boss Lester ( Craig Robinson). Apa) are essential in this dystopia because they can get through the now-divided city of Los Angeles, especially because the young man happens to be one of the rare people immune to the disease. There’s martial law in Los Angeles and something called Q-Zones, where sick people are basically taken to die, cut off from supplies. “Songbird” sets its troll tone early with a segment that includes the line “Remember the good old days of fake news?” (Let me speak for everyone when I say, “NO.”) You thought 2020 was bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet! In just four years, the virus has mutated to the COVID-23, which has completely reshaped existence. Everyone here, including Mason and co-writer Simon Boyes exudes that feeling that their premise is so clever and so unexpected that that's all that needed to be done. If you're going to make a movie this exploitative and gross, you really have to make it better to disguise the smell of it all. The truth is that even if one sets aside all potential moral arguments about the very existence of "Songbird," it's still just really bad. ![]()
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