Steven Soderbergh has updated Contagion 2.
Contagion is a 2011 film directed by Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Released through Warner Bros. Pictures, the film has made roughly $136.5 million at the global box office with an estimated $60 million budget.
In 2020, Soderbergh told Josh Horowitz that he was developing a contagious “philosophical” sequel alongside screenwriter Scott Burns, in Happy Sad’s confused podcast.
“I have a project in development that Scott Burns is working on with me. It’s kind of a philosophical sequel, but in a different context,” he said at the time via Indywire. “You’d see two of them, like a pair, but very different hair colors. So Scott and I were talking about ‘So, what’s the next iteration of the infectious type of story?’ We’ve been working on that. It should probably be a little hot. ”
What did Steven Soderbergh say about Contagion 2?
When asked by Variety if the Contagion 2 project was still happening, Soderbergh said: It has to be about something new, but it is also plausible. Part of the reason people were able to find resonance in that film when people opened, and when the pandemic happened 10 years later, it was rooted in reality. We have to find new gimmicks, but it has to be for people to go, “Oh, that can happen.”
When asked about another pandemic or public health crisis, Soderbergh replied. It just requires a tiny little thrust to turn into something huge, and it has to be what’s going on right now. For me, Contagion was a horror film. So, can the trick find something real scary? In the West, especially, there are cases where environmentally, there are certainly cases where we do things that we eat and breathe. As is well known, we now have plastic in our blood. It is in our brains. This is a new thing that must have a rather serious effect. There are many possibilities. ”
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