Bird Box: Book vs. Movie
Susanne Bier’s Bird Box (2018) adapts Josh Malerman’s 2014 novel. A woman raising two children after an unexplained catastrophe must lead them toward safety without allowing them to look at the world outside.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Josh Malerman
- Year
- 2014
- Pages
- 272Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 8 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Cassandra Campbell
Malorie has raised two children to navigate by sound in a world where looking outside can be fatal. Preparing to take them downriver blindfolded, she recalls arriving pregnant at a house of strangers who had covered their windows against the threat. Their attempts to gather supplies and decide whom to admit expose a problem that vigilance cannot solve: nobody can safely examine the danger they are trying to understand.
- Director
- Susanne Bier
- Writer
- Eric Heisserer
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 2 hr 4 min
- Cast
- Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson
- Genre
- Drama, horror, post-apocalyptic, science fiction, Thriller
- IMDb
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When a wave of inexplicable deaths reaches her city, pregnant artist Malorie takes shelter with strangers who discover that covering their eyes may keep them alive. Inside the house, arguments over supplies and new arrivals threaten the fragile arrangement. Years later, she must guide two children down a river without letting them look, relying on the discipline she has taught them while resisting anything that might persuade them to remove their blindfolds.
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