True Horror: Hollywood Corona | Israel today

2020-07-01T20:56:56.813Z

Mutations in the virus, a conspiracy against the administration and tenants stuck in the elevator • Hollywood is preparing: Corona movies | Theater

Film City is already working on features dealing in Corona • Screenwriter Charles Randolph, Millie Avital's husband, will direct a film on Vaughan • Michael Bay is working on a horror thriller to deal with a mysterious virus outbreak

Doctors in Wuhan come with a patient to the hospital
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While the United States is dealing with the consequences of the Corona eruption, Hollywood is already working on films dealing with the epidemic that has stopped the world in recent months.

This week, it was learned that screenwriter Charles Randolph, Millie Avital's husband and an Oscar-winning screenwriter for the 2016 Money Machine, is working on a script whose plot will occur in Wuhan city of China, where the Corona virus erupted in late 2019.

Randolph, who wrote screenplays for films like "On Love and Other Drugs" with Jake Gyllenhall Van Hathaway and "Bomb" with Charlize Theron, is best known to the Israeli audience because he admitted to his Israeli wife Millie three years ago at the Oscars. He is also expected to direct the film about the Corona eruption, and it will be his directorial debut. The film will follow the dramatic weeks in China with the onset of the virus as medical teams try to figure out what they are dealing with, without knowing they are facing a global epidemic.

"The deeper we dig, the richer the story of Wuhan," Randolph said in the announcement of the project, which is behind international production company SK Global. "It's one thing to fight the monster, but it's something else to fight her in the dark."

The film about Vaughan joins another movie thriller in the Corona spirit, produced by none other than director Michael Bay, who is considered after Hollywood's most powerful names in action and high-budget disaster movies. Bay has directed blockbusters such as "Armageddon," "The Breakthrough for Alcatraz," and a series of "Transformers" films, which since 2007 have put in close to $ 5 billion at box office worldwide.

The movie is called "Songbird," and is in fact an action movie whose plot takes place while the world has been raging for two years for an epidemic, which refuses to disappear. After a period of population relief, the complete closure is returned because the virus has begun to develop new mutations. Among the public, conspiracy theories prevail over government collusion that may be responsible for the story.

"Songbird" is expected to be a horror thriller in films such as "Cloverfield" or "Supernatural Activity." It is not expected to include science fiction elements. The project has already been offered for sale at the Cannes Film Festival virtual market last week. Reports on the rights to distribute it are reportedly already in the advanced stages, and it is estimated that the film will be filmed very soon and will take advantage of the Corona's restrictions in favor of filming.

These two films join a film already announced in March by a Canadian filmmaker of Iranian descent, Mustafa Kawarshi. The film is called "Corona" and it was filmed in Vancouver studios for three days, just before the closure.

The film follows six tenants in a high-rise building stuck together in an elevator in the early days of the epidemic. They suspect that a Chinese neighbor who is in the elevator with them got sick in Corona and is about to catch up with everyone.

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"The people in the elevator talk to each other, thus heightening the mutual anxiety," Qureshi told The Hollywood Reporter. "As we were filming, the Corona called 'the Chinese virus'. Now it is clear that this is not a single nation problem. All of humanity must unite to defeat the epidemic."

Source: israelhayom

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