Watch: Trailer for pandemic heist thriller Locked DownHealth professionals have warned Hollywood filmmakers to approach the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic carefully if they tell stories set during the crisis.
In the wake of the Michael Bay-produced thriller Songbird and the upcoming heist movie Locked Down, cinema has been urged not to “sensationalise or trivialise” the pandemic which has claimed almost two million lives worldwide. Read more: Social media criticises pandemic thriller Songbird Veterinary pathologist Dr Tracey McNamara, who worked on Steven Soderbergh thriller Contagion, spoke to Metro along with numerous other health experts to express their concerns. “There is no need to [sensationalise] as there are plenty of real-life.