Director Steven Soderbergh Says He’s Developing ‘Philosophical Sequel’ To ‘Contagion’

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One of the decade’s most prescient hits might be getting a follow-up. In an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, director Steven Soderbergh revealed that he’s working on a kind of sequel to his 2011 pandemic thriller “Contagion”.

RELATED: ‘Contagion’ Writer Takes Swipe At Donald Trump For His Response To Coronavirus Outbreak “I’ve got a project in development that Scott Burns is working with me on, that’s a kind of philosophical sequel to ‘Contagion’ but in a different context,” he said. “You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired but very different hair colours.

So, Scott and I had been talking about, ‘So, what’s the next iteration of a ‘Contagion’-type story?’ We have been working on that.