If you pushed play on Bird Box Barcelona over on Netflix with hopes that Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock would grace your screen in a surprise appearance, you’ll be gravely disappointed. No, the actress who starred in 2018’s original Bird Box film is not named, seen or heard of in the spinoff film, but there’s a solid reason why.
Bird Box Barcelona tells a parallel story of a dystopian world where a mysterious creature has turned the world into a place where people must blindfold themselves outside otherwise they’ll be coerced into suicide, with the latest movie taking place in Spain and following a man named Sebastián, rather than the original being set in Northern California and being about Bullock’s Malorie Hayes. Co-directors David and Álex Pastor spoke to ComicBook about the decision not to connect the two Bird Box movies. In David Pastor’s words:
