40 Fun Facts About Bird Box

In the film Bird Box, what do most people do after looking at the mysterious entities?

They take their own lives, often within moments, which is why the survivors cover every window and never step outside without a blindfold.

Which star of Speed and Gravity plays Malorie, the pregnant survivor at the heart of Bird Box?

Sandra Bullock signed on in July 2017, the month Netflix announced it had bought the rights to the 2014 novel and would make the film itself.

In the film Bird Box, what does Malorie call the two children she raises for five years?

Boy and Girl are the only names they get until the three reach safety, where Malorie finally names them properly and declares that she is their mother.

At the end of the film Bird Box, the safe community in the forest turns out to be a former what?

A school for the blind is the sanctuary in the novel too, where Malorie is welcomed by Rick, a sightless survivor who first reached her by telephone.

Why do survivors in the film Bird Box keep caged birds beside them outdoors?

They grow agitated near entities, a living alarm. The production filmed real birds where it could and used digital ones for the scenes in which they had to panic.

The horror film Bird Box began streaming on Netflix in 2018 just days before which holiday?

Christmas was four days away when it arrived on December 21, and Netflix said more than 45 million accounts watched within the first week.

Which internet star appeared to drive blindfolded in his own 24-hour Bird Box challenge video?

Jake Paul's stunt made the news on January 7, 2019, the same day a 17-year-old in Utah drove into oncoming traffic and crashed while attempting the challenge.

In Bird Box, Greg dies after testing whether the entities can safely be viewed through what?

Surveillance cameras offer no protection, as Greg proves at the cost of his life. In the novel the same test is run with recorded video by George, the house's original owner.

Which Spanish city is the setting of the 2023 Netflix spin-off film that followed Bird Box?

Barcelona hosts what was announced as the first of several local-language spin-offs, following a father and his daughter through the same outbreak.

Which novelist, also a singer in the rock band The High Strung, wrote Bird Box as his 2014 debut?

Josh Malerman had already written fourteen manuscripts without ever sending one to a publisher before Bird Box became his first book in print.

Which American Horror Story regular plays Jessica, Malorie's sister, in the film Bird Box?

Sarah Paulson's character does not last long: Jessica glimpses something while driving Malorie away from a prenatal check-up and deliberately crashes the car.

Which star of the Oscar-winning Moonlight plays Tom, Malorie's partner, in Bird Box?

Trevante Rhodes plays the man who pulls Malorie off the street on the first day and, five years on, holds off a band of attackers so she and the children can escape.

Which Dangerous Liaisons star plays Douglas, who wants the stranger Gary kept out, in Bird Box?

John Malkovich's character is proved right about the stranger, but only after the other housemates knock him out and lock him in the garage.

Which rapper plays Felix, who steals the housemates' car with Lucy, in the Netflix film Bird Box?

Machine Gun Kelly joined the cast in November 2017 and is billed in the film under his real name, Colson Baker.

Which Get Out actor plays Charlie, who calls the entities demons of the end times, in Bird Box?

Lil Rel Howery's character dies on the supply run, sacrificing himself when a crazed former coworker attacks the group.

Which actor, Cutler Beckett in Pirates of the Caribbean, plays the stranger Gary in Bird Box?

Tom Hollander's Gary says he is fleeing a gang who force people to look, but he has already seen the entities himself, and he tears the covers off the windows.

Which Australian star of Dumplin' plays the second pregnant survivor to reach the house in Bird Box?

Danielle Macdonald's character goes into labour at the same moment as Malorie, and her baby becomes one of the two children Malorie raises.

Which housemate lets the stranger Gary into the house against Douglas's wishes in the film Bird Box?

Olympia pays for the decision: when the stranger exposes the windows during the double birth, she fails to look away.

Vivien Lyra Blair, a five-year-old star of Bird Box, later played which Star Wars character in Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Leia Organa, played as a child, earned her critical praise in 2022, five years after her screen debut in Band Aid.

What does Malorie do with the three birds on reaching the sanctuary at the end of Bird Box?

Malorie sets them free, then recognises a face from before the outbreak among the survivors who have taken her in.

Which Danish director, an Emmy winner for The Night Manager, made the 2018 Netflix film Bird Box?

Susanne Bier had also directed In a Better World, the drama from Denmark that won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.

Bird Box screenwriter Eric Heisserer earned an Oscar nomination for which 2016 alien-contact film?

Arrival was adapted from a Ted Chiang novella, and Heisserer was in talks to write Bird Box before the book it is based on had even been published.

Trent Reznor, co-composer of the Bird Box score, founded which American rock band in 1988?

Nine Inch Nails first sold the soundtrack through the band's own website, and Reznor later complained that the film had buried the music low in the mix.

Before Netflix took over Bird Box, which director of the 2017 hit It was attached to the project?

Andy Muschietti was lined up when the rights were first sold in 2013, the year his debut feature Mama came out and a year before the novel reached bookshops.

Which Dwayne Johnson action comedy displaced Bird Box as the most-watched film on Netflix in 2021?

Red Notice drew 364 million hours of viewing in its first 28 days, well clear of the 282 million that had kept Bird Box at the top of Netflix's all-time film chart.

Netflix cut news footage from Bird Box that showed a real 2013 rail disaster in which Canadian province?

Quebec's town of Lac-Mégantic lost 47 people in the derailment, and Netflix replaced the clip with an outtake from a cancelled American TV series.

Which effects company founded by George Lucas created the visual effects for the film Bird Box?

Industrial Light & Magic's London and Singapore studios did most of the work under the film's effects supervisor, Marcus Taormina, and it earned a Visual Effects Society nomination for supporting effects.

Which Hollywood studio optioned the film rights to Bird Box in 2013, before the novel came out?

Universal Pictures lost the project when its producer Scott Stuber became head of Netflix's film division and the streamer acquired the rights.

The final scene of the film Bird Box was shot at which women's college in Claremont, California?

Scripps College stood in for the refuge, while the wilderness scenes were filmed at the opposite end of the state on the Smith River.

Netflix cancelled the red carpet at which festival premiere of Bird Box because of the Woolsey Fire?

AFI Fest hosted the world premiere on November 12, 2018, and the red carpet was also dropped out of respect for victims of the Thousand Oaks shooting.

In the film Bird Box, where do the housemates find three pet birds while out on a supply run?

A grocery store where Charlie used to work is the target of the raid, and Malorie brings the birds back along with the food.

On the supply run in Bird Box, what guides the survivors' car once its windows are blacked out?

GPS navigation lets them drive without anyone looking at the road, on the same outing that costs Charlie his life.

Which video platform banned dangerous challenge videos in 2019 as Bird Box challenge clips spread?

YouTube changed its rules a day after police began investigating a clip of a blindfolded man standing on a railway track, though its statement cited the Tide Pod challenge.

In which US state do Malorie and her sister live when the outbreak begins in the novel Bird Box?

Michigan is also where the author lives, and the book went on to win a Michigan Notable Book Award in 2015.

In the novel Bird Box, which animals does Tom set out to find, believing they may be immune?

Dogs prove no safer than people: Victor, who outlives every human housemate but Malorie, goes mad while the two are out looking for supplies.

In the novel Bird Box, which animals attack and injure Malorie on the blindfolded river journey?

Wolves are one of two dangers on the water in the book; the other is a madman who urges the family to take their blindfolds off.

In the novel Bird Box, what is the name of Malorie's sister, who became Jessica in the Netflix film?

Shannon shares a home with Malorie in the book and dies after looking out of a window, not at the wheel of a car as in the film.

The author of Bird Box feared his draft would be lost behind which 2008 M. Night Shyamalan film?

The Happening, about an unexplained wave of mass suicides, reached cinemas after he had finished his rough draft, as did the film of The Road.

The author of Bird Box plays in The High Strung, the band behind which US TV show's theme song?

Shameless opens with the band's song The Luck You Got, taken from the group's 2005 album Moxie Bravo.

In the 2020 sequel novel to Bird Box, where have Malorie and her teenage children made their home?

An abandoned summer camp shelters them until Malorie hears of a distant survivor community where her own parents may be living.