With his Netflix satire Don’t Look Up, writer-director Adam McKay looked to address “the largest issue in the history of mankind”—that being the climate crisis, and the way people…
looked to address “the largest issue in the history of mankind”—that being the climate crisis, and the way people tend to either deny it is happening or refuse to acknowledge its “urgent and terrifying” weight.
While the subject at the heart of the film was incredibly serious, he said he wanted it to juxtapose “the terror of the reality” with “the absurd comedy” of misinformation. “It’s almost like an old Marx Brothers movie or Three Stooges, where clearly there are mice loose at the opera premiere, but they’ve got to coverit up,” McKay said Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season event. “And the mice are swarming everywhere.”follows two low-level astronomers who embark on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth.
McKay isn’t overly optimistic that he’ll win over science deniers with this film. Instead, he’s set his sights on the people “that know about climate change and think it’s just one of many issues, which it isn’t.”
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