Josie Ho Joins Soderbergh’s CONTAGION That Will Make Its Way To Hong Kong

According to Hollywood Reporter, actress Josie Ho (Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li) has joined the big ensemble cast of CONTAGION in 3D opens October 21st, 2011. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Written by The Informant! and The Bourne Ultimatum scribe Scott Z Burns, it’s a “terrifying” action thriller about an outbreak of a deadly virus and the story takes place over four continents. Starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, John Hawkes and Marion Cotillard..

the report states that CONTAGION will shoot in Hong Kongat the end of this month, which would be likely to bring up some painful memories of the deadly SARS epidemic in 2003.
Ho will play the sister of “patient zero” a casino worker who spreads a deadly virus to passengers on an airplane leaving for the United States but Ho doesn’t know yet which Asian actor is going to play “patient zero”
Script notes suggest other shooting location for CONTAGION includes Minneapolis, Dubai, Japan, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia, and Malaysia.