Listen up,Bird Boxfans — Malorie might be back on your screens soon!Bird Boxauthor Josh Malermanrevealed toEsquirethat he’s writing a sequel to his hit 2014 novel the movie is based on — and he got the idea from watching the Sandra Bullock-starrer on Netflix!“At the end of the movie, I turned to my girl Allison and said, ‘I want to know what happens next!’ and she’s like, ‘Well, you know, you could make that happen,’ so it really was this warm feeling,” Malerman says.Sandra Bullock inBird Box.Merrick Morton/NetflixTitledMalorie, the book sequel will hit shelves on Oct. 1. The story will take place 8 years after the ending of the first one, and will focus on exploring Malorie and the creatures more. Netflix’s post-apocalyptic film stars Bullock, 54, as a woman named Malorie who, along with her two children, comes face to face with an entity that takes the form of people’s worst fears.“In the time betweenBird Boxcoming out and the time since I’ve been writingMalorie, I’ve been asked a ton of times: people want to know what happened with Boy and Girl,” he said. “But as much as I care about Boy and Girl, this isn’t their story. TheBird Boxworld is Malorie’s story, and I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to get to know her even better.”Saeed Adyani/netflixBut will the same people return if a sequel movie gets made?Bird Boxdirector told PEOPLE early this year that she wanted to enjoy the success before thinking of coming back for number 2.“We only just finished it!” she said. “It’s funny, I’m kind of reading people asking for a sequel and I’m like, ‘Hey, hey, hey, we really just finished!’ So let’s just enjoy it for now.”Bird Boxis streaming on Netflix now.
Listen up,Bird Boxfans — Malorie might be back on your screens soon!
Bird Boxauthor Josh Malermanrevealed toEsquirethat he’s writing a sequel to his hit 2014 novel the movie is based on — and he got the idea from watching the Sandra Bullock-starrer on Netflix!
“At the end of the movie, I turned to my girl Allison and said, ‘I want to know what happens next!’ and she’s like, ‘Well, you know, you could make that happen,’ so it really was this warm feeling,” Malerman says.
Sandra Bullock inBird Box.Merrick Morton/Netflix
TitledMalorie, the book sequel will hit shelves on Oct. 1. The story will take place 8 years after the ending of the first one, and will focus on exploring Malorie and the creatures more. Netflix’s post-apocalyptic film stars Bullock, 54, as a woman named Malorie who, along with her two children, comes face to face with an entity that takes the form of people’s worst fears.
“In the time betweenBird Boxcoming out and the time since I’ve been writingMalorie, I’ve been asked a ton of times: people want to know what happened with Boy and Girl,” he said. “But as much as I care about Boy and Girl, this isn’t their story. TheBird Boxworld is Malorie’s story, and I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to get to know her even better.”
Saeed Adyani/netflix
But will the same people return if a sequel movie gets made?Bird Boxdirector told PEOPLE early this year that she wanted to enjoy the success before thinking of coming back for number 2.
“We only just finished it!” she said. “It’s funny, I’m kind of reading people asking for a sequel and I’m like, ‘Hey, hey, hey, we really just finished!’ So let’s just enjoy it for now.”
Bird Boxis streaming on Netflix now.
source: people.com
