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Steven Soderbergh developing ‘terrifying’ idea for post-Covid Contagion sequel
Director says he fears that a followup to the 2011 film, which gained renewed popularity during the pandemic, could be ‘irresponsible’
Soderbergh was speaking to One Decision, a podcast whose co-hosts include Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of the British intelligence service MI6, the former CIA director Leon Panetta and now Kate McCann, a Times Radio presenter. Staring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Winslet and Marion Cotillard, the film surged back to prominence in early 2020, as Covid emerged from China and much of the world locked down. Responding to Dearlove’s description of his belief that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory, a theory at first downplayed but increasingly taken seriously instead of the position that the virus spread from a food market, Soderbergh said “the people I’m talking to” about pandemics believed Covid came from a lab but had “a zoonotic origin”.
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