In reality, if somebody thought about doing something like this, it would require lots of people to be involved. First of all, in the movie, it’s this crazy billionaire that decides to do it. But how practically can it be done? I think much less. ![]() So it is possible that genetic engineering can produce viruses that deadly? How realistic is this? It’s not totally unrealistic, because obviously there are deadly viruses, right? With current technology, it’s potentially possible to maybe modify natural viruses to make them even more deadly. If it’s released, it will spread through water and kill a significant proportion of the world population. In the movie, there’s not much information, actually, about this virus - what exactly it is, and how it’s produced. How realistic is the scenario that plays out in Inferno? Here, he explained to Inverse why we have nothing to worry about. A virus of such potency - with the ability to both infect and spread at such a rapid success rate - simply doesn’t exist in nature, and even if it could be genetically engineered, he says, it’d be impossible to predict its behavior. As he observed this scenario play out on screen, Caltech biologist Alexei Aravin, Ph.D., scoffed at the Harvard symbologist’s urgency. ![]() ![]() ![]() If it’s released, the unnamed pseudo-plague, which has been incubating in huge amounts under the gaze of an evil tech billionaire, will wipe out half of the world’s population, and Langdon races to beat the clock. In Ron Howard’s Inferno, the third installment in the Dan Brown-inspired series of films, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns, once again, to save the world from imminent doom: Unlike in The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons, however, Langdon isn’t up against sinister Old World establishments like the Vatican or the Illuminati: This time, he’s facing off with a world-ending virus.
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