![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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