In Contagion, a mysterious virus epidemic breaks out in Hong Kong and American tourists take the infection back home to the United States.
In January, when China was hit by the new corona virus, the nine-year-old film suddenly topped iTunes' rental list.
In Sweden, Contagion viewing increased by 4,000 percent, Dagens Nyheter reported in March.
This week, the film's director Steven Soderbergh visited the podcast Happy sad confused and said that he and screenwriter Scott Z Burns are working on a follow-up.
- I have a project under development together with Scott Z Burns, a kind of philosophical sequel to Contagion, he says in the podcast, writes People.