“As such, SAG-AFTRA members are hereby instructed to withhold any acting services or perform any covered work for this production until further notice from the union,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement.
Violating this order may result in disciplinary action in accordance with the SAG-AFTRA Constitution.”
Just over a month after the project was first announced, the Michael Bay-produced pandemic thriller Songbird won’t be soaring into production anytime soon as Variety has brought word that SAG-AFTRA has hit the film with a “Do Not Work” order.
Plot details place the story two years in the future, where the pandemic has not subsided, and worse, continues to mutate.