![]() ![]() Wade Carter (Liam Cunningham), something of a renegade with alarmist tendencies and experiences with this “enemy” in other forms. ![]() Jerry Jaax (Noah Emmerich), and several of her superiors, especially when she summons her mentor Dr. ![]() Jaax’s obsession with outbreak concerns her husband, Lt. Nancy Jaax ( Julianna Margulies), researcher with the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and her team of researchers including characters played by Topher Grace and Paul James. The story focuses primarily on an outbreak of an unknown virus among monkeys at a research facility in Reston, Virginia, in 1989. The book’s publication mined terror from introducing Ebola to a mainstream audience and a general preoccupation with the AIDS epidemic, while the miniseries was put into development in the middle of one Ebola outbreak and will premiere in the middle of another. Hart and Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson and Jeff Vintar, what’s airing on NatGeo is a reasonably straight-forward adaptation that has, sadly, lost absolutely none of its relevance. Producer Lynda Obst stuck with the property and, with a team of writers including creator James V. Richard Preston’s best-seller of the same title was both wildly successful 25 years ago and notorious for the circuitous and ultimately unsuccessful attempts to adapt it for the big screen. ![]()
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