Michael Bay's Coronavirus Movie Comes Out Next Month

Michael Bay's new coronavirus movie will be released next month.

Songbird is set just a few years into the future when the virus has mutated become even more deadly, and the world has become even more unbearable.

According to reports from Deadline, the dystopian flick will be available on a Premium VOD release from Friday, 11 December.

It's understood that the movie will cost $19.99 (£15.16) to rent for 48 hours and will then reportedly be available to watch on a major streaming service at some point in 2021.

The film, which was produced by Bay - of Armageddon (1998) and Pearl Harbor fame - is set in 2024, and will depict the world in its fourth year of lockdown, as it struggles to cope with Covid-23 - a mutation which, with a 50 percent mortality rate, is now much more dangerous.

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Those who are unfortunate enough to have contracted the deadly virus are dragged, quite violently, from their homes and dumped in quarantine camps.

Sounds cheery, doesn't it?

Riverdale's KJ Apa stars as Nico - a man who has Covid immunity, so spends his days dropping off deliveries and supplies around the city.

During the course of the movie, Nico finds love with Sara (played by Sofia Carson) - a woman he hasn't actually met due to the strict lockdown rules.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, director Adam Mason said: "It's a dystopian, scary world, but it's a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can't.

"It's Romeo and Juliet, but they're separated by her front door and by the virus."

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He said the idea for the movie came about when his scriptwriting partner Simon Boyes gave him a call the day after parts of the US went into lockdown and suggested they 'should just go and make a movie'.

And, incredibly, the movie was shot in just 17 days.

Apa told Entertainment Weekly: "We were kind of trepidatious, but still very much amped and excited to get to work.

"It was really eerie, but the way we shot was every actor's dream."

For anyone concerned that the movie might be just a little bit too bleak, Carson said: "Even though this is the pandemic thriller and it's suspenseful and terrifying, the heart of the story is hope.

"In our never-ending dark night, the songbird sings a song of hope."

Topics: Science, Entertainment, Coronavirus, US Entertainment, Health, Covid-19

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