Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns says he was 'terrified' by Trump's budget cuts to the CDC: 'The notion that we’re going to cut these things and we’ll just try to rebuild them when we need them is foolish and dangerous'
,” as it would be called, involved a deadly global pandemic, and rather than cheap Hollywood thrills, he wanted the movie to be based on something much scarier – real scientific research. Soderbergh immediately agreed to direct the story.,” which featured a sprawling cast that includes Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Marion Cotillard, opened from Warner Bros.
“Contagion” saw traction on streaming platforms in China in the early days of the COVID-19 spread. In particular, screenshots from a plot about a bogus homeopathic remedy in the film, called “forsythia,” were used online as a coded way to express anger at the Chinese government for pushing traditional medicine remedies that had no proven benefits.patients has grown to 130,000 cases worldwide, audiences are turning to “Contagion” for information and comfort .
One of the things that I had going for me was that Steven had made “Traffic.” I was very taken with the construction of that film. I think that gave the studio confidence that this was the kind of storytelling that he and I were capable of doing. Also, Steven and I spoke to the studio a lot about 1970s disaster films and the value of an ensemble cast when you’re trying to tell far-flung stories, so there’s always someone onscreen who the audience is really interested in.
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