Josh has such an organic, granular way of hooking the reader into his characters immediately. It’s what you hope and dream for, but you can’t orchestrate it. Malerman’s agent Kristin Nelson, founder of Nelson Literary Agency, said, “When something goes viral, it always surprises everyone.

It felt the same writing Malorie, but I didn’t have Sandra Bullock in mind when I wrote the first one.” So with Bird Box, I always saw it cinematically. When you first start writing novels, especially now, how do you not see them cinematically? We grew up on movies. I was also aware that there was a possibility that Sandra Bullock wouldn’t be playing Malorie. He said, “It took about the same amount of time. RECOMMENDED READ: Lucifer Season 5 Trailer: Tom Ellis is back as the Lord of Hell, albeit in a slightly different avatar Then it jumps a few years later, and it really takes off 10 years after that.” Malorie opens at the school for the blind, which is where the movie ends. 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. He said, “Sitting down to write Malorie the book almost felt like it was for her or it was her time. The sequel titled Malorie, after the protagonist will be out on July 21 and will focus on her as told by Malerman to an online portal. The universe that he created was centered on creatures that would instigate you to kill yourselves if seen and was later made into a film that was headlined by Sandra Bullock and premiered to wide acclaim on Netflix.

Setting off on another perilous journey, a new threat emerges from survivors who claim to have experimented on the creatures.Josh Malerman, author of the 2014 post-apocalyptic novel Bird Box will be coming out with a sequel. Malorie learns of another community of survivors, and among them may even be her parents. Both Tom and Olympia have become increasingly frustrated with life and the strict regimented rules that Malorie forces them to live by.

Having evolved over time, the creatures can now drive survivors to madness by touch, making it even harder to survive in the deadly world.įlash forward 12 years later, Malorie and her children, who are now teenagers, have found sanctuary at an abandoned Jewish summer camp. In the novel Malorie witnesses one of the other survivors, Anette, who is blind, driven to madness by the creatures. When the creatures/entities break-in chaos ensues, and Malorie and her children are forced to flee.

The story picks up just two years after Malorie and her children, Tom and Olympia, arrive at the safe haven, a former school for the blind. Assuming the film uses Malerman’s novel, Malorie, as the source material, we have an idea of what to expect from the sequel.

Sequel to bird box book