If I was at the bar with my friends while all that was happening, my God, I probably would have drank a whole bottle and had to be carried home,” he tells THR laughing. Some of it was totally crazy … I started to get worried because I don’t want somebody to get hurt.”Īs Bird Box fame heightened, Malerman admits he watched the frenzy that followed the film’s release while in Michigan with his fiancée, something that helped in “making sense of it all.” “I was able to watch it all from afar. “I, for the most part, thought it was amazing and funny. “It was unbelievable! I’m sitting there writing about a woman in a rowboat blindfolded then, in 2019, I’m watching all these people doing this in videos,” Malerman reflects. The film even inspired a viral social media trend dubbed the #BirdBoxChallenge, in which people blindfolded themselves as they attempted various tasks. Though Malerman published the novel Bird Box six years ago, it gained a new audience and popularity in 2018, when Netflix brought his story to life in a film adaptation of the same name starring Bullock. The film became a phenomenon as it was viewed by 45 million accounts worldwid e in its first week on the streaming service, according to Netflix, catapulting Malerman’s book on the New York Times bestseller list four years after its publication.
“Sitting down to write Malorie the book almost felt like it was for her or it was her time,” Malerman tells The Hollywood Reporter ahead of his book’s July 21 release. “It felt less like I was writing a sequel to Bird Box and more like I was putting a spotlight on a character that I cherish through a life of writing so far.” Author Josh Malerman had just finished watching his 2014 novel Bird Box come to life onscreen when he turned to his fiancée and asked her of Sandra Bullock’s Malorie, “what happens to her next? I want to know.” After his fiancée reminded him that only he could know that answer, Malerman decided to venture back into his post-apocalyptic Bird Box world again to write a sequel titled Malorie.
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