![]() Immune to the virus, Nico is a courier who roams the city. Ironically, it’s still uncertain whether the movie will get a cinematic release due to COVID lockdowns. Now, people infected with Covid-23are forcibly sent to quarantine in camps that have become eerie ghettos. For some this may offer the film a sense of realism and relevance, whilst for others it may be seen as a poorly timed cash-grab by Hollywood. ![]() Unlike 2011’s pandemic movie, Contagion, which has found new relevance this year, Songbird directly refers to COVID instead of a fictional disease. Adam Masons schlocky and opportunistic Songbird is billed as the first Hollywood feature to be made. Others have said that the movie appears to romanticise elements of lockdown, where other parts of the trailer feel like scaremongering with endless lockdowns and oppressive state force. Other CW Shows Will Return in 2021Īlready the trailer has been met with strong criticism online with some saying that the movie trivialises COVID-19, which many people are still being infected and dying from everyday. RELATED: Supernatural to Return Fall 2020. Neither can meet one another due to lockdown restrictions in a world with temperature checks, street blockades and “disinfection squads” which take away the infected. As one of the few people in the city who is allowed outside, he starts a relationship with a young woman ( Sofia Carson) through online means. Riverdale‘s KJ Apa plays a young courier who’s immune to the virus. It’s a bleak and depressing depiction of an imagined future where COVID-19 has mutated into a far deadlier disease. The recently released trailer shows an almost apocalyptic Los Angeles with residents locked down at home, state-enforced curfews and “quarantine camps” holding the infected. From producer Michael Bay, Songbirddepicts a grim, dystopian near-future where the world enters its fourth consecutive year in lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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