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Michael Bay Is Working On A Pandemic Thriller Movie, Because Of Course He Is

Bay will produce Songbird, a movie about paranoia and conspiracy set in a pandemic-ravaged world.

www.gamespot.com

Michael Bay is getting to work on a "pandemic-themed thriller" titled Songbird. Production is set to begin in just five weeks with actors receiving "remote training" before actually beginning to shoot in Los Angeles. The fast tracked timeline may make Songbird the first movie to shoot in the city post-pandemic.

Interestingly, no one involved in Songbird would comment on exactly how the movie plans to shoot during a time with such strict safety protocols in place, or exactly what the production's own safety plans would be

Tonally, Songbird is being compared to Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield, implying that it will be found footage. It will be set two years in the future, in a world where the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has not dissipated, and the virus has continued to mutate beyond control.

It's almost as if, in Bay's vision, the virus has.........Transformed.

 

[chitzy]

Michael Bay is the man.

 

[cryptoadam]

I am guessing there will be no mention of China in this movie.

 

[chitzy]

I am guessing there will be no mention of China in this movie.

Bay is a conservative, so it's possible. But yeah all the Chinese money going into Hollywood I would guess will drown any accountability being held to China for their CHINESE VIRUS.

 

[cryptoadam]

Bay is a conservative, so it's possible. But yeah all the Chinese money going into Hollywood I would guess will drown any accountability being held to China for their CHINESE VIRUS.

I know one of the Transformers did some major pandering to China, but I don't remember if Bay was still directing by that time. I think it was the 3rd one? They all mesh together.

 

[chitzy]

I know one of the Transformers did some major pandering to China, but I don't remember if Bay was still directing by that time. I think it was the 3rd one? They all mesh together.

It was the 4th one, Age of Extinction. Yeah Bay directed it.

 

[Patrick S.]

Just what we need, huh.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Just what we need, huh.

 

[Rentahamster]

Of course he is

 

[Hans Bubby]

I fucking love his movies so count me in.

 

[DESTROYA]

Are they going to eat bats and then explode dispersing the virus?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Are they going to eat bats and then explode dispersing the virus?

I like the way you move.

 

[SurprisedPikachu]

Does the virus cause spontaneous explosions, because we already have that in the real world, it's called terrorists.

 

[Ar¢tos]

So it's an excuse to keep making movies by having masked actors and no close contact between them.
With the masks the lines won't even matter, they'll just do voice-overs after.

 

[Potato Chip PRO]

What's the Virus blowing up? Can't be a Bay film without his signature effect... Explosions.

 

[Aggelos]

What?

Michael Bay-Produced ‘Songbird’ Could Be the First Coronavirus-Era Film Shot in Los Angeles

The Michael Bay-produced 'Songbird' could be the first coronavirus-era film shot in Los Angeles.

www.indiewire.com

 

[Tesseract]

michael bay is the pentagon, a construct

i'm not complaining, i love his stuff

 

[triplestation]

i want a scene with a pair of f-22s chases a man coughing in a SUV on a bridge and one end of the bridge explodes

 

[lock2k]

Michael Bay is a virus. The only thing worse than his movies is the MCU.

 

[Kagey K]

Contagion with explosions and set pieces?

 

[SpartanN92]

Never let a good crisis go to waste I guess

 

[eddie4]

there's gonna be lots of explosions isn't there....you know it.

 

[Zenaku]

I am guessing there will be no mention of China in this movie.

China will discover the cure and save the world, as soon as the dumbfucks in America and Europe get over their racist prejudices and give China access to their research.

"If only we'd cooperated sooner!"

 

[EviLore]

 

[Quartermaster]

Sorry Michael you're late. That movie came out 9 years ago.

 

[EviLore]

Sorry Michael you're late. That movie came out 9 years ago.

A good and prescient film, but one that pretends America doesn't have hundreds of millions of guns.

I'm sure we can count on Michael Bay to remember.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Oh my Gawd, the virus is shooting at us!

 

[goldenpp72]

I hope the Virus can take human form and also hump stuff like a good Bay movie.

 

[Kagey K]

Oh my Gawd, the virus is shooting at us!

Shia Lebeef will surely save us and Meghan Fox will be there to document it all.

 

[GymWolf]

Seems like another film that i can safely ignore...