Steven Soderbergh is bringing his fear-of-disease thriller Contagion to shoot in Hong Kong in a move that is likely to stir up painful memories of the deadly SARS epidemic in 2003 that spread around the world from China, shaking its one-party government. Josie Ho, the singer-actress who last appeared in the slasher film Dream Home (review), told THR that Soderbergh has hired her to join the Hollywood ensemble cast in her native Hong Kong at the end of September. In Soderbergh’s first visit to Greater China as a director, Ho, a daughter of Macau’s wealthiest gaming tycoon, is set to play the sister of “Patient Zero,” a casino worker who spreads a deadly virus to passengers on an airplane leaving for the United States. She stars alongside Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Laurence Fishburne. Warners plans an October 21, 2011 release.
