Hollywood company will make a movie about the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Work on a new film telling about the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was started by the Hollywood company SK Global Entertainment. This was reported on June 27 by the Wall Street Journal. The screenwriter of the film will be Charles Randolph, who received an Oscar for the script for the film Downhill Game. According to him, the film is conceived not as a thriller, but as a medical drama. The plot will revolve around the first weeks of the spread of coronavirus and the struggle of doctors with an unknown deadly infection. As Randolph himself explained, he sets himself the task of concentrating on the work of doctors and nurses fighting a disease about which they know virtually nothing. It's one thing to fight a monster. It is completely different to fight a monster in darkness, the screenwriter noted. Charles Randolph The filmmakers expect to get permission from the Chinese authorities to shoot, which will begin in 2021. How long it will take to create a film is not reported. Earlier, the news agency reported on a thriller about the pandemic, which will be filmed in Hollywood with the participation of actors Demi Moore and Craig Robinson.