You actually wrote this before the pandemic?ĪDAM McKAY: When we were filming Vice, the UN put out a report about climate change that was so jarring I couldn’t sleep for a couple of nights.
In your new film Don’t Look Up, the polarizing factors that have kept the world from achieving herd immunity from Covid alters the genre from action to satire. Staring out the window and watching another train speed directly towards him, he simply pulls down the window shade.ĭon’t Look Up will be released in theaters December 10, and bows on the streaming service December 24 and here, McKay explains why he made the film.ĭEADLINE: Last time a giant space projectile was headed to earth in a movie, they sent Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck up to nuke it. Coyote sits in the engineer compartment of a train stalled on the tracks. The movie, which dropped its official trailer today (see it above), gets its title from a denialist slogan reminiscent of that classic Road Runner cartoon scene where Wile E. Don’t Look Up is more broad comedy than those, exploring the current polarization and apathy toward issues like climate change and Covid vaccines, fueled by a threat with even more urgency: What if a giant comet was on a collision course toward earth and, in the struggle between polarized politics, social media messaging, the private interests of tech billionaires and apathy, it becomes an open question if anybody will do anything to save the planet? Even when the astronomers sound the alarm on a popular talk show, they become memes more than anything.Īdam McKay Had To Make The Comedy Of His Satire 'Don’t Look Up' Even Wilder To One-Up Crazy Real-World Events - Contenders L.A.
The film will be an unusual awards-season entry, its closest comp being spirited satires like Dr.
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He has fused both of these elements into Don’t Look Up, a Netflix movie that features some of the biggest stars in the movie business constellation, from Leonardo DiCaprio to Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Mark Rylance, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry and more. EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay has evolved from his broad comedy origins on Saturday Night Live and films like Step Brothers, Talladega Nights and Anchorman to more socially relevant films like The Big Short and Vice.
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