10 Movies That Just Got Cancelled

10. Contagion 2

Contagion was a modestly successful and well-regarded pandemic thriller when it released in 2011, but almost a decade later it enjoyed a huge boost in popularity due to how astonishingly well it paralleled the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was enough renewed talk about the film that, by the end of 2020, director Steven Soderbergh announced that he and writer Scott Z. Burns were developing a "philosophical sequel" to Contagion, noting that it wasn't a direct follow-up but "the next iteration of a Contagion-type story."

And as recently as last year, Soderbergh talked up some "terrifying" ideas he and Burns had for Contagion 2, but while promoting his new film The Christophers, the filmmaker confirmed that the sequel had been scrapped.

Soderbergh cited an overwhelming feeling that a Contagion sequel would be raking back over ground he trod well enough the first time, and considering the unexpected shelf life that film has had, it's easy to accept it as a brilliant one-off.