The first trailer for "Songbird" is here – the film that used the corona pandemic as a template for a dystopian end-time film.
The first trailer of the corona thriller "Songbird" produced by Michael Bay (55) is here and triggers the exact controversy that was predicted after the film was announced at the beginning of the year. Because "Songbird" shows a world four years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, in which the virus has mutated into an even more deadly version, the military is pulling sick people out of their homes and apparently either stuck in camps or disappears entirely. Those who fall ill have a fifty-fifty chance of surviving – the number of corona victims worldwide is 110 million.
According to the voice-over, the film's protagonists are already in their 213rd week of lockdown and physical contact with loved ones is strictly prohibited. Nevertheless, people are forced into illegal prostitution in order to make ends meet. The main characters are a bike courier immune to the virus ("Riverdale" star KJ Apa, 23) and his girlfriend (Sofia Carson, 27), who is at risk of being pulled out of circulation due to a possible illness. Demi Moore (57) was also persuaded to play in the strip.
The basic tenor of the reactions is devastating
Unsurprisingly, in the comments section of the trailer published on YouTube, reactions to "Songbird" were sometimes devastating. Bay couldn't even wait half a year before enriching himself from the suffering of the corona pandemic. The film by director Adam Mason (45) is "tasteless, inappropriate and astonishingly stupid" and "the proof that Hollywood is the most disgusting, mean and insensitive industry in the world".
Some fear that "Songbird" is not only disrespectful, it is even dangerous: "Honestly, that can be dangerous because we are still in the middle of a Covid panic. It also has a really bad taste. We don't need any more fear Times that are already difficult for so many people. " Or to put it cynically: "This is exactly the film we need right now."
One also wonders how the film could be shot in what felt like record time. A concrete start date for "Songbird" has not yet been announced, but the trailer says "Coming Soon" – even if nobody really seems to be waiting for it.