'Bird Box 2' Is In Development, Says Original Novel's Author

Back in the before times of 2018, before the lockdown, Netflix had one of its biggest hit ever with the movie “Bird Box,” starring Sandra Bullock. Now, the author of the novel “Bird Box” is based on said that Netflix is now working on a sequel to its hit horror film.

Inverse.com has the scoop, as author Josh Malerman, who wrote the original “Bird Box” novel, talked with them about publishing the sequel novel “Malorie” later this month.

When asked about a potential sequel to “Bird Box,” Malerman reveals that it is already in the works, but of course, there are no other details than that. “I can’t say much, but I can say that it is in development,” Malerman says. “Sometimes it’s weird, all this secrecy, but I’m game.”

Both the original novel and the film take place in a post-apocalyptical world where unseen creatures cause everyone who looks at them to go insane. As a result, survivors are forced to wear blindfolds at all times. The book picks up over a decade after the events of the first novel and it continues the story of the titular Malorie, which Sandra Bullock played in the film.

Given how big a hit “Bird Box” was for Netflix, it shouldn’t take long before the sequel goes into production. Though nothing has officially been announced yet.

This is the book’s rundown:

“Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence.

There remains no explanation. No solution.

All Malorie can do is survive—and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don’t get lazy, she tells them. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK.

But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope.

Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.“