Netflix is Developing a Sequel To Sandra Bullock's BIRDBOX
Sandra Bullock’s horror thriller Birdbox was a big hit for Netflix when it dropped back in 2018. Audiences certainly seemed to enjoy it. The movie was based on a book written by Josh Malerman and in a recent interview with the author, he reveals that Netflix is developing a sequel. He told Inverse:
"I can't say much, but I can say that it is in development. Sometimes it’s weird, all this secrecy, but I'm game."
Malerman did write a sequel novel titled Malorie, which he says he was inspired to write after seeing the success of the Netflix film. We don’t know if the sequel movie will follow the events of the sequel novel or if it will explore all-new ideas. The author went on to talk about the new novel, saying:
"Malorie opens at the school for the blind, which is where the movie ends. Then it jumps a few years later, and it really takes off 10 years after that."
Malorie will be released on July 21st. And this is the description of the book, which offers a much more detailed insight into the story:
Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence.
There remains no explanation. No solution.
All Malorie can do is survive—and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don’t get lazy, she tells them. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK.
But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope.
Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.
Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. But getting her life back means returning to a world full of unknowable horrors—and risking the lives of her children again.
Because the creatures are not the only thing Malorie fears: There are the people who claim to have caught and experimented on the creatures. Murmerings of monstrous inventions and dangerous new ideas. And rumors that the creatures themselves have changed into something even more frightening.
Malorie has a harrowing choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.
I imagine that Netflix would want to adapt the sequel book into a film, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what they do.
In the original film, "When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous river to the one place left that may offer sanctuary. But to survive, they'll have to undertake the perilous two-day journey blindfolded.”
Are you happy to hear that there will be a Birdbox sequel?