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However, but there is light at the end of the tunnel after almost a year of disruption. A lot of stuff got cut out, but that gave us a wealth of material to play with.”Īs Songbird debuts on PVOD for $19.99 for a 48-hour rental, the coronavirus pandemic rages on.
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The script that we filmed was 140 pages for a movie that ended up running for about 85 minutes. We wrote the script in three days because we were working on such a truncated schedule. “There were rules of the world we created that we had to figure out. “A lot of the shots, the LA city stuff, I went out and shot that myself with my drone and my camera because the world we were living in was kind of eerily similar to what was on the page,” he recalled. While others were at home, Mason was making the most of the lockdown. Paul Walter Hauser in 'Songbird.' STXfilms We were trying to solve logic issues having this worst-case scenario of what the world might look like four years in the future if things didn’t get better and evolving all the time during post-production right up until when we finished. That was entirely because of what was happening with the virus in the lockdown in real-time. There was quite a lot of tinkering with the world-building stuff in post-production. That didn’t change at all from the page to the production. He added, “The fundamental backbone of this movie is a love story between the characters of Nico and Sarah played by K.J. We went out to actors, and ultimately, it was a great creative experience.” I was very pleasantly surprised by the reaction we got. “It’s a very hopeful movie, so generally, once actors spoke to me, I think that they were very quickly able to feel more at ease in terms of the safety aspect of it. Once they read the script, I think they were very intrigued to talk to me because the script was probably, in many ways, the opposite of what I would imagine they might expect. I think that the movie was buzzy enough and made enough noise back at the very beginning to get people to at least read the script. Mason didn’t expect the response that he got from the cast. It also boasts Bradley Whitford, Demi Moore, Paul Walter Hauser, Alexandra Daddario, and Peter Stormare. Apa and Sofia Carson as the couple at the heart of the story. Songbird boasts an ensemble cast led by K.J. Everyone pulled together to try and make something that did seem to be impossible at the time.” Everyone just wanted to be making something, so there was a real sense of excitement and togetherness. It kind of reminded me of why I wanted to make movies in the first place. It was the opposite of any experience I’ve had since I moved to LA 14 years ago. “It was so unusual, and it was creatively very freeing.
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Every word of it was written with safety in mind.” At every turn, we had to ask the question, ‘How can we do this?’ It wasn’t a script that we had written two years ago and then dusted off and changed to suit the circumstances. Everything had to be built from the ground up in terms of safety. “It was a fascinating creative process because it wasn’t just about telling a story, or any of the usual bulls**t that comes with making a movie in terms of development. “I think everyone is just trying to find a way back to work because the whole town shut down on that Friday or whenever it was,” Mason explained. Filming in a pandemic was uncharted territory.
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For the filmmaker, originally from the UK, everything slotted into place at what was considered to be the worst possible time for the film industry.