STXfilms has acquired the Michael Bay-produced pandemic thriller Songbird for North America and the U.K. Bay recently overcame novel coronavirus production hurdles to wrap production on Songbird, which is directed by Adam Mason.
Set two years in the future during a pandemic lockdown, when a virus vaccine is elusive, Songbird tells of the budding love story between a motorbike courier named Nico, played by K.J.
Apa, who has rare immunity, and Sara (Sofia Carson), a young artist. Bay produced Songbird with Adam Goodman and Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives, and Catchlight Films.
The movie was one of the first projects to go into production in Los Angeles with the lifting of a lockdown and the introduction of new safety restrictions,.
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