Since its release at the end of last year, Netflix's Bird Box has become one of the most talked films of the year, and thanks to its roaring success, a sequel has just been confirmed.
The film, starring Sandra Bullock, is based on Josh Malerman's 2014 novel of the same name as we follow Malorie and her two children as they struggle to survive alongside an unknown force that causes people to take their own lives when they see it.
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Following the huge success of the Netflix release, Malerman has been spurred on to write a sequel to his original novel. The book will be set eight years after the original film ends and will be titled Malorie - due for release on 1st October this year.
Malerman admitted that after watching the film, even he was left with questions that needed answering.
He told Esquire: "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."
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When asked where the film will take place, Malerman revealed the location would be 'similar' to where the characters ended up at the end of the first novel.
"They've left there," he said. "[It's] similar in that they're trying to make things work. It's not like it opens with them in paradise."
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"In the time between Bird Box coming out and the time since I've been writing Malorie, I've been asked a ton of times: people want to know what happened with Boy and Girl," he continued.
"But as much as I care about Boy and Girl, this isn't their story. The Bird Box world is Malorie's story and I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to get to know her even better."
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