"I started watching random YouTube videos and looking for images from April 2011 in Times Square," he writes. "Close, but no cigar."Ī Wikipedia search helped him pinpoint the date the scene was shot on location in New York City - April 23, 2011- which then led him on a search for movies and Broadway shows airing around the time. "I remembered the Divergent cover had the same color scheme, but not quite the same design," Mullally wrote. While there's no mistaking the beverage's billboard, the image of the supposed coronavirus, which appears to be in the original film (see the below clip at around timestamp 2:07), is a bit of a puzzle.įilm critic William Mullally, in a recent Twitter thread, was able to ascertain the identity of the blurry screenshot.įinding it vaguely familiar, he said he first believed it was cover design of the "Divergent" trilogy written by young adult author Veronica Roth. Exit the Matrix expressed belief in the image's claim although acknowledged never having seen the film itself. Let that sink in," declares the text above the image.Įxit the Matrix, an "entertainment website" that is among many pages on Facebook to publish the post, informed USA TODAY via Facebook Messenger that the image was obtained from another Facebook group (it could not provide details as to name). "Behind his right shoulder, a Corona Beer, & on his left, the image of a 'coronavirus' in New York City. Various billboards loom in the background, including one for Corona beer and another resembling an illustration for the coronavirus. headquarters, having just been revived from his nearly 70-year slumber in ice. The post features a still shot of Steve Rogers, played by actor Chris Evans, in the middle of New York City's Times Square, where he ends up after fleeing S.H.I.E.L.D. Among the latest, a Facebook post claims the pandemic was predicted in the 2011 film "Captain America: The First Avenger." Since the advent of the novel coronavirus at the end of 2019, rumors have circulated as to the virus's origins, method of spread and its potential vaccine. Watch Video: Masks with your tickets? Moviegoing may look different post COVID-19 The claim: A scene from Marvel 2011's "Captain America: The First Avenger" predicts the coronavirus