Michael Bay’s ‘Songbird’ Begins Production, Adds Bradley

“Songbird,” the primary function movie accredited by the unions to start out taking pictures amid the coronavirus outbreak, begins manufacturing in Los Angeles Wednesday, and the movie has added Bradley Whitford and Jenna Ortega to the solid of the pandemic-themed thriller.

“Songbird” is produced by former Paramount manufacturing chief Adam Goodman and former Disney exec Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives, with Catchlight Films and Michael Bay additionally producing.

The movie was introduced on the Cannes Virtual Market and likewise stars Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser and Peter Stormare. Adam Mason (“Into the Dark”) directs the movie and wrote the script with Simon Boyes (“Misconduct”).

“Finding a safe and practical way back into production has not been easy, however, our partnership with the guilds and unions has been a true testament to our great Hollywood community. Throughout the process they were awesome partners at finding a way to get their members working again, but always making safety and welfare the first priority. As artists, we need to keep telling stories, and times like these must be documented,” Goodman mentioned in a press release.

On Friday final week, SAG-AFTRA issued a D0 Not Work discover towards the movie, however the guild has since lifted that restriction.

The movie is supposed to shoot utilizing artistic digicam strategies in order that actors wouldn’t have face-to-face interplay with each other whereas on digicam, with actors and crew separated as filming takes place.

“Songbird” is a thriller set two years sooner or later at a time when a worldwide pandemic has nonetheless not gone away, resulting in conspiracies, paranoia and more and more strict quarantines and lockdowns put in place all surrounding the principle characters.

“Songbird” is wholly self-financed by Invisible Narratives. Bay is producing, as is Goodman for his Invisible Narratives manufacturing banner together with Eben Davidson. Invisible Narratives is partnered with Jeanette Volturno, Jason Clark, Marcei Brown, Jessica Malanaphy and Rick A. Osako of Catchlight Studios.

Whitford is represented by ICM and Greenlight Management. Ortega is represented by CAA, Gilbertson Entertainment, and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Mason is represented by 3 Arts and ICM Partners. Bay is represented by WME.

ICM Partners and Endeavor Content are dealing with worldwide gross sales for the movie.

Deadline first reported the information.