Michael Clear is one of the smartest producers I've met in Hollywood, and before he began working alongside James Wan, he was an executive at Scott Stuber's Bluegrass Pictures. I remember being in his office one day, and there was a box of books on the floor. He picked one up and handed it to me, and said, "read this. It's going to be big." That book was called Bird Box, and his boss Stuber was smart enough to hang on to that project when he left Universal to take the top job at Netflix, which turned …