The COVID-19 crisis caught a lot of people flat-footed — including an alarming number of people in government — but to anyone who’s seen “Contagion,” this all seems a bit like deja vu.
The drama, which hit theaters in 2011, is about a regular family man (Matt Damon) trying to navigate a partial societal collapse after a deadly virus sweeps across the globe.
As of Friday, it was the third most popular movie on iTunes — and the only film in the top 10 that didn’t come out in 2019. The filmmakers, including director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Burns, set out to make a film that was as realistic as possible.
And they accomplished that, in part, by consulting numerous real-life epidemiological experts. “Their goal was to try and really