Contagion Sequel in the Works from Director Steven Soderbergh: 'Kind of a Philosophical' Follow-Up

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Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is working on the “next iteration” of his newly-relevant 2011 thrillerContagion.

While appearing on Josh Horowitz’sHappy Sad Confusedpodcast, Soderbergh,who is also co-producing the upcoming 2021 Oscars, teased a follow-up film.

“I’ve got a project in development that Scott Burns is working with me on, that’s a kind of philosophical sequel toContagionbut in a different context,” Soderbergh said. “You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired but very different hair colors. So, Scott and I had been talking about, ‘So, what’s the next iteration of aContagion-type story?’ We have been working on that. We should probably hotfoot it a little bit.”

Near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,Contagionbegan to rise again in popularity due to eerily relevant subject matte depicting the deadly effects of a viral outbreak. In January, as COVID-19 began to infect the population in China, the filmshot up to the top of the iTunes chart. In the star-studded film, the mysterious virus originates in Hong Kong before travelers coming back to America bring it with them and infect the population.

Burns continued, “And I don’t find it to be that surprising, because the scientists I spoke to, and there were a lot of them, all said that this was a matter of when, not if. So, I guess my feeling as someone who believes in science is that when scientists tell us those things we would do well to listen.”

source: people.com