Yo, Michael Bay — hasn’t the reality of the coronavirus pandemic disturbed enough of our dreams already?
The producer behind such light film fare as “Armageddon,” “The Purge” and “A Quiet Place” has released a trailer for his upcoming feature film “Songbird.” It predicts a dire, snowballing disease mutation — COVID-23 — that has created a horrific hellscape by 2024.
“Tensions rise as we head to the 213th week of lockdown,” a newscaster says in voiceover during the three-minute clip, as another cryptically intones, “The grim new reality emerges.”
The official description is enough to send everyone in 2020 scrambling for the nearest Cold War-era bomb shelter.
Billed as a “terrifying thriller” and the “first feature film to be made during COVID-19 in Los Angeles, and about the pandemic itself,” the movie also stars Bradley Whitford, Demi Moore, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser, Craig Robinson and Peter Stormare. It’s produced by Bay and written by Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, with the latter also directing.
There is no official release date — only that it is “coming soon.” Probably like theactualend of the world.