Steven Soderbergh has given an update on Contagion 2.
Contagion is a 2011 movie directed by Soderbergh that stars Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow, and more. Released through Warner Bros. Pictures, the movie made around $136.5 million at the global box office off an estimated $60 million budget.
In 2020, Soderbergh told Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he was developing a “philosophical” sequel to Contagion alongside screenwriter Scott Burns.
“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 at the time, via IndieWire. “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.”
What did Steven Soderbergh say about Contagion 2?
When asked by Variety if the Contagion 2 project is still happening, Soderbergh said, “We’ve talked about it. It would have to be about something new but also something that’s plausible. Part of the reason people were able to find resonance in that movie when it opened, and then 10 years later when the pandemic happened, was it was rooted in reality. We’ve got to find a new gimmick, but it’s got to be something that people go, ‘Oh, that could happen.’”
When asked if it would be about another pandemic or public health crisis, Soderbergh responded, “Maybe. It would need to be something that’s going on right now that just needs a tiny little shove to turn into a huge thing. To me, Contagion was a horror movie. So the trick would be, can you find something as scary that’s real? There’s certainly a case to be made, especially in the West, for the long-term effects, environmentally, of what we eat, what we breathe. As is well known, we have plastic in our blood now. It’s in our brains. This is a new thing that’s got to have a pretty serious effect. There’s lots of possibilities.”
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