Hot off the success of Bird Box, a movie that barely involved keeping birds in a box, Sandra Bullock is heading back for another Netflix movie. As reported by Variety, she’s going to star in an untitled film from director Nora Fingscheidt about a woman trying to re-enter society after serving time in prison for a “violent crime.” Unfortunately, society “refuses to forgive her past” and she’s now “facing severe judgment from her former friends and peers” and must seek redemption by tracking down her estranged younger sister. Dramatic stuff, in other words.
Interestingly, the movie was written by Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise’s best buddy and the director of the last couple Mission: Impossible movies, so it’s nice to see that he’s still enjoying some creative output that does not involve finding new ways to try and trick Cruise into getting mangled in horrible accidents. As for Fingscheidt, she previously directed the German film Systemsprenger and has been racking up international film festival awards in the last couple years. Still, no birds in a box, so… we’ll see how it goes.
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The Bird Box of Alcatraz
The Roc.
Sounds a bit like I’ve Loved You So Long with Kristin Scott Thomas.
I thought we saw this with Debbie Ocean.
That film kind of glossed over the fact that Bullock’s character had been in prison because she bludgeoned a bus full of school children to death.
she started her criminal behaviour in middle school I’d reckon. So much milk money on that bus.
Birdbox and that will Smith alien nation remake or whatever are apparently the two most watched movies ever on netflix, but does anybody know anyone who’s actually seen them?
I don’t know anybody who voted for Trump either, but I think that says more about me than it does about him.
I have a friend/occasional co-worker that told me she watched Birdbox when it first came out on Netflix and it was the scariest movie she ever saw. She also has a low tolerance for movies in the supposedly “scary” category. I have avoided both Birdbox and the Will Smith Alien Nation remake based upon that comment.
And your friend has watched it 500 million times
Bird Box
China.
Fingers crossed for Cate Blanchett as her prison girlfriend
Come on, Netflix. Felicity Huffman was right there for this role!
We already got this movie: it was called Ocean’s 8 and it was awful. When the funniest lines in the movie come from James Corden you need to reevaluate every decision you’ve made in your life that brought you to this point.
Damn, where was the spoiler alert?I haven’t seen Bird Box yet and now I’m going to keep guessing when they’ll get out all through the movie.
She should do a movie about being married to a white supremacist for years and then pretending she had no idea – even though I can easily find old pictures of him dressed up in nazi gear, and find instances of him saying questionable shit and having questionable tattoos with white supremacist ties.