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Feb 16, 2020 · Google searches with the film's name have skyrocketed since early 2020, when news of the novel coronavirus broke. The movie indeed has some similarities to the current coronavirus outbreak....
- Fran Kritz
Apr 2, 2020 · Like Covid-19, the film’s MEV-1 is a respiratory disease, carried in expelled droplets of saliva from a sneeze or cough or other secretions.
- 3 min
Contagion: Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Tien You Chui, Josie Ho, Daria Strokous. Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
- (318K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Steven Soderbergh
- 2011-09-09
Mar 16, 2020 · Contagion recently saw an uptick in people streaming the movie, apparently looking for similarities with the coronavirus outbreak. Are audiences looking for clues on how to deal with such an event, or escapism via a fictional virus which is so much worse than COVID-19?
The film was inspired by real-life outbreaks such as the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak and the 2009 flu pandemic. [2] Following their collaboration on The Informant! (2009), Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns discussed a film depicting the rapid spread of a virus.
Mar 1, 2020 · A number of specific plot elements found in Contagion's screenplay by Scott Z. Burns have proven to be reflective of aspects of the current coronavirus outbreak. Many of these elements that have ended up paralleling reality can be attributed to how both Soderbergh and Burns wanted to make a movie about a global health scare that seemed realistic.
Mar 14, 2020 · Movies like Contagion and Outbreak seemed like the stuff of Hollywood magic, but as the world finds itself in the middle of a growing outbreak of Coronavirus, those thrillers are starting to...
