Contagion soared in popularity, as the world went into lockdown. Now, the director has revealed that he’s working on a “philosophical” sequel to the 2011 pandemic film, with original screenwriter Scott Z. 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,” says Soderbergh, on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired, but very different hair colors.” While making the connection, Soderbergh notes that the new film won’t be a sequel “in a literal sense”. It’s unlikely to share characters with the original, for example. “Scott and I were talking about, what’s the next iteration of a