Despite outcry, Netflix will not remove real-life train derailment footage from Bird Box
Netflix is not planning to remove footage of a real-world train derailment that was used in its fiction film Bird Box, despite outcry from citizens of Lac-Mégantic in Quebec, Canada, The Verge has confirmed.
The film, in which society breaks down after the arrival of madness-inducing monsters, uses stock footage of the derailment to illustrate the catastrophes resulting from the creatures’ presence. The video was taken from the 2013 disaster, in which a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded, resulting in 47 deaths. It was one of the deadliest disasters in modern Canadian history. The footage appears at the beginning of the movie in a fictional news report. It’s not meant to represent the actual 2013 event. Still, people online...