CinemaBlend There was a time when you could watch Steven Soderberghâs 2011 thriller Contagion and say to yourself: âSomething like that would never happen, and if it did, it wouldnât be like that.â But, here we are 10 years later living in a completely different world from the one we knew a decade ago, one that is eerily similar the one crafted by Scott Z. Burns. And, even before the pandemic made the movie a little too familiar, the Contagion cast, which was anchored by the likes of Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, and Jude Law, among others, had been around quite a bit before appearing in this anxiety-inducing drama.