Steven Soderbergh has been keeping busy in quarantine writing new screenplays and leading the DGA’s committee to figure out how to get back to work, but what everyone wants to know is how the filmmaker predicted the current pandemic in his 2011 thriller “Contagion.” The outbreak movie surged in popularity this year amid the pandemic.
Soderbergh said in a 2011 interview that making “Contagion” made him realize a real pandemic would be inevitable.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times this week, Soderbergh doubled down and said our current pandemic doesn’t surprise him one bit.“Everybody we talked to when we were preparing that film, every expert, when we asked them how will the next one start, to a person, they said, wet market, Asia, there’s probably going to be a bat involved,” Soderbergh said.
“Literally all of them.
Ten years ago, 11 years ago.
So it’s not a surprise.
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