Get your blindfold ready as Netflix is developing a Bird Box sequel

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Upon its release, BIRD BOX was one of Netflix's most watched original movies, so it's no surprise that they'd want a follow-up. The film starred Sandra Bullock as a woman who tries to to protect herself and two children from malevolent supernatural entities that make people who look at them go insane and kill themselves. Cheery.

While speaking with Inverse, writer Josh Malerman confirmed that Netflix is currently developing a sequel to BIRD BOX which will be based on "Malorie," his upcoming sequel novel. "Malorie opens at the school for the blind, which is where the movie ends," Malerman said. "Then it jumps a few years later, and it really takes off 10 years after that. I can't say much, but I can say that it is in development," Malerman says. "Sometimes it’s weird, all this secrecy, but I'm game." Although millions of people have watched BIRD BOX, it's one of those movies which I just haven't gotten around to yet, so I'll defer to our own JimmyO, who called the film a "haunting and provocative thriller, with a surprisingly heavy dose of horror" in his review. Jimmy added, "It is a pleasure to see Ms. Bullock step into genre, and she gives an impressive performance as a woman intent on protecting her and the family that she has taken on." As far was whether BIRD BOX warrants a sequel, I'll leave that up to you folks.

The official synopsis for "Malorie":

Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution. All Malorie can do is survive—and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don’t get lazy, she tells them. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK. But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.

Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. But getting her life back means returning to a world full of unknowable horrors—and risking the lives of her children again. Because the creatures are not the only thing Malorie fears: There are the people who claim to have caught and experimented on the creatures. Murmerings of monstrous inventions and dangerous new ideas. And rumors that the creatures themselves have changed into something even more frightening. Malorie has a harrowing choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.

"Malorie" is slated to be released on July 21st. In regards to a sequel to BIRD BOX, are you down for a return to that world?