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Published 19:00 IST, October 31st 2020

Angry netizens outrage at 'Songbird'; call the dystopian horror movie "tone deaf"

As the trailer of Michael Bay's 'Songbird' gets released on Twitter, angry netizens lash out at the film for trying to take advantage of the ongoing pandemic

Reported by: Anurag Sharma
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Michael Bay’s latest movie Songbird has attracted a lot of attention, all for the wrong reasons. Twitter was filled with angry and upset netizens who felt that this film is taking advantage of the current coronavirus pandemic. After the Songbird trailer was released on social media, angry netizens took to Twitter to bash the film saying that this film is not made in the right spirit. Here is what has happened.

Michael Bay gets heat by netizens on Twitter

Directed by and produced by Michael Bay, Songbird is about a love story between a boy and a girl during the year 2024, which shows a late-stage version of Covid-23 mutates and starts affecting people’s brains. This movie will be an addition to Michael Bay's movies. With the cast of KJ Alpa and Sofia Carson in the lead, this story shows the lockdown and tries to recapture the quarantine period during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.

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Netizens took to Twitter to criticize this film as, according to them, this movie tries to take advantage of the ongoing pandemic and is trying to earn money even as people across the world are fighting this pandemic. They believe that that is the last thing that people would want to see while going through the agony of this pandemic. Many such similar thoughts and views were shared on Twitter by netizens who clearly seemed to be upset by the trailer.

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While there is no news of Songbird’s release date yet, it is expected to hit the theatres in 2021. However, the wounds among people are still fresh; and this outrage on social media can create trouble for this movie even in the long term. Being Michael Bay's latest film, Songbird's release will add to the big collection of Michael Bay’s movies such as Bad Boys, Bad Boys 2, Pearl Harbor and many more.

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19:00 IST, October 31st 2020