COVID-19 is COVID-23 in the trailer for Songbird, Michael Bay's trashy pandemic thriller

Of course Hollywood’s first feature about COVID-19 was produced by Michael Bay, who, with director Adam Mason, has turned a pandemic that’s in the process of killing hundreds of thousands of Americans into a “sci-fi thriller” about a world in which lockdown’s in its fourth year and the infected are rounded up in camps called “Q-Zones.” Yay! Escapism!

COVID-19 is now COVID-23, a mutation of the virus that’s somehow caused the nation’s highways and ferris wheels to fall into disrepair. Yet love still blooms in these grimy times—KJ Apa’s “fearless courier,” immune to the virus, falls for a woman in lockdown (Sofia Carson), who only he can save from a sneering Peter Stormare, here playing the “corrupt head of the city’s ‘sanitation’ department.” Elsewhere, Demi Moore cocks a gun and Bradley Whitford engages in a bit of COVID-themed kink.