Jude Law said that the scientific experts contacted for the making of Contagion knew back in 2011 that a deadly pandemic was sure to come.

Jude Law explains in a recent video that the scientific advisers on Contagion knew that a pandemic is inevitable. The newest face of Dumbledore is referring to the 2011 film that imagines how the world would react to a deadly virus, from the perspective of both ordinary citizens and government officials from the WHO and U.S. CDC.

The socio-political thriller was directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Scott Burns, and featured an all-star cast including Law, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet.

Contagion quickly shot to the top of streaming charts at the beginning of the year in response to the coronavirus outbreak. While some prefer to watch movies that provide distraction from the outside world, others choose to watch relevant movies in order to cope-and Contagion is probably the most relevant movie to our experience with COVID today.

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Contagion was riddled with eerily accurate predictions of how the outbreak of a deadly virus would play out, both in terms of how a virus could manifest and spread, and how citizens and governments would react. Specifically, the film was able to predict the dangerously rapid spread of misinformation and some people's distrust of the certified experts.