ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Bird Box Barcelona administrators and writers Àlex and David Pastor about worldwide tales and filming with actual blindfolds (learn extra interviews). The movie is now streaming on Netflix.
“From the producers of the global phenomenon, Bird Box, comes Bird Box Barcelona, an expansion of the film that riveted audiences in 2018,” reads the movie’s official synopsis. “After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected and even more sinister threat grows.”
Tyler Treese: Alex, the unique Bird Box was an enormous hit for Netflix. How thrilling was it to increase that universe, fairly than do a retread to get to inform this entire totally different perspective of what’s a world difficulty?
Àlex Pastor: Well, that’s what actually attracted us to the mission. This concept of directing a film, that it was a part of a mosaic of tales that they have been going to inform extra of a world story. Instead of getting a linear means of telling it and doing a direct sequel or prequel from the unique one, creating these totally different chapters, these parallel tales that may very well be set in numerous components of the world. We thought it was one thing that had by no means been completed earlier than and it wouldn’t have been doable earlier than a world platform like Netflix.
David, you each additionally wrote the film. I used to be curious in regards to the artistic course of. Were you given a sort of franchise bible of what you may and couldn’t do, or did you have got free reign? How was it navigating that course of?
David Pastor: Well, I believe that what attracted us to this mission as filmmakers was the liberty that we had. Netflix solely knew that they wished to have a Bird Box story set in Spain, and clearly that story needed to respect the principles of the unique and be according to it. But apart from that, it was a kind of conditions the place [they said], “Knock yourself out, guys. Come up with something that you’re excited about.” Like Alex was saying, as administrators, we didn’t need to simply redo the unique or give the viewers one thing that that they had already seen. So it was as much as us to discover a means of delivering one thing that was totally different after which actually strategy the parable of Bird Box from a totally totally different perspective.
Alex, for the blindfolded scenes, are the actors truly blindfolded? I couldn’t inform. Is it tougher to fake to behave blind?
Àlex Pastor: Well, it relies upon. It is dependent upon the actors.
David Pastor: And it is dependent upon the scene.
Àlex Pastor: It is dependent upon the scene. There are scenes which might be too dangerous to carry out truly blindfolded. So they don’t seem to be. So typically they will see … they’re just a little see-through. Sometimes they even have holes on it that, then with CGI, you patch.
David Pastor: Especially for the little woman, you recognize? Like the little woman, it could be too harmful to have her on a spot the place she might fall down and principally kill herself. [Laugh]. So in these circumstances, we might name it the Ninja Turtles blindfold, which was like a blindfold with like two Ninja Turtle-style holes. And then, with CGI, we might erase them.
Àlex Pastor: But we had some actors who favored to be just a little extra technique they usually refused to have see-through blindfolds they usually wished to have the ability to go blind via the scene, which … no matter helps the actor, we’re sport,
David, for any catastrophe film, the human interactions are necessary. Can you communicate to the human component of the film and what you about this dynamic the place they need to put their belief in others to outlive, however in addition they need to be fairly cautious of everyone they’re interacting with?
David Pastor: Yeah, I believe that’s one thing that we in all probability realized in the course of the precise pandemic that we have been all via. This steadiness between counting on different folks, but additionally, the worry of the opposite, the worry of contagion. That’s one thing that I believe that since all of us lived via, it was very a lot in our thoughts once we have been directing the film and once we have been speaking to the actors about their interactions. That was a vital a part of the movie. I believe that that’s one thing that folks will have the ability to relate [to], much more now than how the viewers did again in like 2018 when the unique got here out.
I do know you’re not the one making these choices, however how a lot potential do you see in Bird Box changing into even greater of a franchise? It appears there are such a lot of prospects.
Àlex Pastor: For positive. I’d like to see what any person in Korea or in Tokyo might do with this story, and to see new views. I believe that that’s what’s so highly effective and unique from this franchise specifically. So I’m very excited to take a seat down and watch any person else from a really totally different nation from ours, with a really totally different perspective, have a crack at it and blow my thoughts.
David Pastor: I imply, we’ve seen America, we’ve seen Europe. I believe we should always see Asia, you recognize? That can be superb. And in a means, it reminds us of a little bit of the World War Z guide — not the film, which is okay, however the unique World War Z guide. Max Brooks actually had this kind of mosaic of what was occurring in all the world in the course of the zombie outbreak, you recognize? I believe that may very well be like one thing actually cool.
Discussion about this post