Gwyneth
Paltrow's
2011
release
Contagion
has
become
the
talk
of
the
town
recently.
The
actress
last
month
joked
about
how
similar
the
film's
plot
is
to
the
current
coronavirus
situation.
Soon
enough
several
fans
also
began
noticing
the
similarities,
and
recently
writer
Scott
Z.
Burns
opened
about
working
on
the
film
almost
a
decade
ago.
During
an
interaction
with
Slate,
Scott
revealed
that
the
scientists
he
interacted
with
during
research
believed
it
was
a
matter
of
when
it
will
happen
and
not
if
it
does.
Talking
about
the
current
situation
he
added,
"Well,
obviously,
you
know,
it's
very
upsetting
to
see
people
getting
sick
and
dying,
the
part
of
me
that
is
a
human
being
is
more
struck
by
this
than
the
part
of
me
that
is
a
filmmaker."
"That
being
said,
it
has
been
very
strange
to
me,
whether
on
social
media
or
in
conversations
with
friends,
that
people
will
say
to
me,
'This
is
uncanny
how
similar
it
is.'
And
I
don't
find
it
to
be
that
surprising,
because
the
scientists
I
spoke
to,
and
there
were
a
lot
of
them,
all
said
that
this
was
a
matter
of
when,
not
if.
So,
I
guess
my
feeling
as
someone
who
believes
in
science
is
that
when
scientists
tell
us
those
things
we
would
do
well
to
listen," he
added.
The
film's
popularity
has
skyrocketed
since
January,
it
is
now
the
number
four
on
most
rented
film
since
WHO
declared
COVID-19
spread
as
a
pandemic.
Here
are
some
fand
reaction
after
watching
the
film
or
the
trailer.
Soderbergh’s
“Contagion.”
A
damn
good
film.
Sobering.
Makes
you
really
sit
back
and
think
about
how
our
world
would
handle
a
pandemic.
Nine
years
old.
First
thing
I
thought
about
when
this
#coronavirus
stuff
started
up.
The
Jude
Law
character
especially.
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Coronavirus
has
currently
infected
a
count
of
84
cases
since
the
first
case
was
just
found
a
few
days
ago
in
India.
While
a
number
of
countries
around
the
world
have
been
infected
with
a
death
toll
of
over
4000
in
just
two
months.