![]() It was really cathartic for me making the film, because I wanted to make something about trying for the human spirit. I was trying to make something that was really cathartic. Now you've seen the movie, hopefully you'll share my opinion that ultimately it's very hopeful and life-affirming. Like I said, it was a really surreal experience putting the movie together. Then that same day that we were writing into the script, there were helicopters flying over my house with loudspeakers announcing the 6pm curfew. ![]() I remember Simon and I were debating whether or not we should have a curfew in the movie, and part of us thought that it was too dystopian and that would never happen. I mean, a lot of the things that we wrote in the original script ended up happening in real life and in real time around us. It's something that I wanted to make as a distraction from what was going on around me, but it's something that I've thought about a lot. How easy is it for you to go back and relive this movie, knowing where we are in the pandemic currently?Īdam Mason: It has been a very surreal and strange experience making the movie. What started as a very small, intimate idea that I was just going to do myself with Simon became Songbird. Two weeks later, Michael Bay came on board and it all just snowballed from there. ![]() The next day, he called me and said he wanted to greenlight the movie, which is the first time that's ever happened to me so quickly. We were originally gonna make Songbird for $0 and just put it together ourselves, but it was more that I just wanted to run it past him and see what he thought of the idea. For some reason, I thought that he might gel with this idea. He was someone who I thought was a very savvy and forward-thinking producer. That's what we were going to make originally, and then I sent that 12-page document to Adam Goodman, who used to run Paramount and who was someone that I had met with about a few projects over the years. But in its first iteration, it was more of a monster movie - Cloverfield would be the closest comparison. Half of it was a call to arms of how I thought we could make a movie during a lockdown, and the other half was what ultimately became Songbird. That same day, which was the first day of lockdown in in LA, we wrote a document called Songbird. It's something that we've done many times over the past with no budget, no resources, just making a movie because it's what we love to do. I would cut it together and, over a period of time, we would make a movie that way. Simon and I would write the script, snd we would get the people we knew to record themselves using their iPhones and so on, and send me the footage. Simon called me that morning, and he basically said, that we should just get together over social media and come up with a movie. I had all of these big concerns and stresses that I think everyone was feeling that day back in March of this year. I was feeling very concerned and anxious about what was going on I've got a wife and three little kids, and I'm 6000 miles away from my parents, so I can't really see them with all that's going on. When did you and Simon Boyes start fleshing out the script and seeing where the story could go? Was it in the infancy of the pandemic?Īdam Mason: Yeah, on the very first day of the lockdown, Simon called me that morning. This movie almost felt like watching a glimpse of our future.
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