By Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media In 1995, “Outbreak” represented a very different type of Hollywood thriller.
Instead of pitting its heroes against criminals, terrorists or other generic baddies, the movie’s antagonist was a deadly virus.
Twenty-five years later, with the globe on lockdown due to the coronavirus and the death count from the disease rising, “Outbreak” looks remarkably prescient.
But screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool take little comfort in correctly predicting the devastating toll that a pandemic can take on society.
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