![]() Citizens are obliged to test themselves for the virus every day with some kind of mobile app, and those who fail are dragged off to plague-ridden concentration camps called Q Zones by armed guards in Hazmat suits. It’s 2023 – year four of lockdown – and the novel coronavirus has mutated into a new, supremely deadly airborne strain that can kill in 24 hours flat. Well, allow me to set your mind at ease: Songbird is even more spectacularly crass and exploitative than you could have possibly hoped. Naturally, concerns were expressed about exactly how tasteless this thing was going to be. The result – directed by Mason, but stylistically indebted to Bay in almost every respect – has just squeaked into cinemas and onto VOD before the end of the year. Bay evidently liked what he read because the following day, he signed up to produce it – and in July, it became the first feature to start shooting in Los Angeles since the city shut down four months beforehand. In late March, a pitch from the British screenwriting duo Adam Mason and Simon Boyes landed on Bay’s desk, for a dystopian action thriller set during the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() Wait, Michael Bay? Yes, Michael Bay: director of Armageddon, The Rock and five Transformers films Capra of carnage Bergman of bombast Fellini of fell-agrant mass destruction. Some truly extraordinary films have been made this year during lockdown by such esteemed auteurs as Pedro Almodóvar, Jonathan Glazer, Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Bay. Dir: Adam Mason Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser.
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