9 years ago, Contagion was released to solid reviews, but once soon forgotten as the year concluded, Fast forward to 2020 and as the COVID-19 pandemic began to take shape nationwide, Contagion was the seventh most popular film on iTunes, listed as the number two catalog title on Warner Bros. compared to its 270 rank the past December 2019, and had average daily visits on piracy websites increase by 5,609 percent in January 2020 compared to the previous month.
The pandemic gave the film more eyes and a better understanding of what we were going through and now it looks as though Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, wants to expand on the ideas that were introduced in that film. Soderbergh revealed during a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast that he is in early development on a “philosophical” sequel to Contagion. Soderbergh stated,
“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. You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired, but very different hair colors. 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; we should probably hot-foot it a little bit.”
