Ever since Bird Box dropped on Netflix over Christmas 2018, we wondered if there would ever be a sequel. After all, we had *so* many questions we still needed answered.
Now, author of the novel the film is based on, Josh Malerman, has revealed a sequel is in the works as his follow-up novel, Malorie, will hit the shelves later this year.
Speaking to Inverse, Josh remained pretty tight-lipped on the subject, but did confirm the movie is in development.
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"I can't say much, but I can say that it is in development. Sometimes it's weird, all this secrecy, but I'm game," he said.
The follow up film will be based on the central character, Malorie, who was played by Sandra Bullock in the original movie.
"Malorie opens at the school for the blind, which is where the movie ends. Then it jumps a few years later, and it really takes off 10 years after that," the author added.
In case you need a recap on the original, the dystopian drama follows Malorie as she tries to protect herself and two children ('Boy' and 'Girl') from a supernatural force which - if you look at it - makes people go insane and kill themselves.
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The film alternates between present day and five years earlier, when the 'apocalypse' was just beginning.
Malorie is pregnant, and goes for a routine scan at the hospital, but while she's leaving, she sees a woman repeatedly bashing her had into a glass window.
Her sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson), who has accompanied her, drives them home, but loses control at the wheel after seeing the terrifying entity and the car overturns.
Jessica gets out of the car, and walks into the path of a truck. It quickly emerges that there have been mass suicides across the globe - but at the time, no one understands why.
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The film follows Malorie's journey as she tries to protect her kids and lead them to safety, eventually ending up on a boat, rowing downstream with the two children in blind folds and a box of birds (who can sense danger).
After a number of near misses, they reach a community - a former school for the blind - and Malorie releases the birds before finally giving the children names - Tom and Olympia.
It makes sense there would be a sequel - and finally - we might get a conclusion to some of the questions that have been playing on our minds ever since.
Such as, what even are the monsters and how did it all start? Why were the children called Girl and Boy? And why did Malorie choose Girl to look, instead of Boy?
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The book's ending is a little different - and much darker. In the novel it turns out that the people at the community have actually blinded themselves to stay safe.
Could this give us a clue about what the sequel could be about? We'll have to wait and see, but the official novel synopsis reads: "In the old world there were many rules. In the new world there is only one: don't open your eyes.
"In the seventeen years since the 'creatures' appeared, many people have broken that rule. Many have looked. Many have lost their minds, their lives, their loved ones.
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"In that time, Malorie has raised her two children - Olympia and Tom - on the run or in hiding. Now nearly teenagers, survival is no longer enough. They want freedom.
"When a census-taker stops by their refuge, he is not welcome. But he leaves a list of names - of survivors building a future beyond the darkness - and on that list are two names Malorie knows.
"Two names for whom she'll break every rule, and take her children across the wilderness, in the hope of becoming a family again."
Of course, the adaptation could be a little different, but it certainly sounds epic.
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