Catch up with the suddenly on-trend thriller this Thursday Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 pandemic movie Contagion will be airing on ITV this Thursday at 9pm (GMT), following the announcement of a three-week nationwide lockdown to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.
The film has been spiking in popularity since the virus first developed, with Google searches and Letterboxd logs growing enormously.
The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law and Kate Winslet, and sees the deadly spread of a virus across the world.
Contagion was based on the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the swine flu epidemic in 2009. Film fans have been revisiting or discovering the film in the wake of similarities with the coronavirus pandemic – although the film