After a major “technical issue” with cybersecurity company CrowdStrike left Microsoft users around the world with the “Blue Screen of Death,” many people who saw the Barack and Michelle Obama-produced film Leave the World Behind were left with a feeling of déjà vu.
Released October 25, 2023, on Netflix, the apocalyptic thriller follows a dysfunctional couple, played by Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, whose Hamptons vacation gets interrupted by the end of the world, which starts with a technology outage a lot like the one currently causing chaos across the world.
“Everyone waking up this morning seeing news of the CrowdStrike hack that caused a Global IT Outage realizing this how ‘Leave the World Behind’ started…,” wrote one Twitter user.
