![]() “It's a dystopian, scary world, but it's a romantic movie about two people who want to be together, but they can't,” says Mason. ![]() Mason then sent an email to producer Adam Goodman with the pages attached and the subject line: “Crazy Idea!” Another day and another phone call later, Goodman was on board and so was, little-known producer, Michael Bay ( Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers).Īmid this exaggerated version of the current hellscape, where there’s curfews and martial law, Apa’s character Nico, finds hope and love with Sara (played by Sofia Carson) - even though they’ve never actually met due to the strict lockdown protocols. We should just get together with our friends and do something on our phones.’” Mason and Boyes spent the rest of that first Saturday in lockdown frantically typing up a 12-page “call to arms” that outlined the plot for Songbird and also included details on what they were going to do and how they were going to pull it off during a pandemic. “I was like, ‘Why are you excited? It's the end of the world.’ He said, ‘We should just go and make a movie. ![]() “It was surprisingly early, and he was surprisingly excited,” says Mason. The day after parts of the country went into official lockdown on March 13, the filmmaker received a call from his writing partner Simon Boyes. It was phone call that planted the seeds of that story in Mason’s mind too - and it spread virus-fast from there. Songbird is set in 2024, where COVID-23 has mutated (the mortality rate is over 50 percent and the virus kills at an accelerated rate) to the point that the world is in its fourth year (!!) of lockdown, and infected Americans are forced from their homes and into quarantine camps.
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