Adam McKay talks about the making of his climate-crisis satire DontLookUp, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio
flew to Ireland to his isolated lake house to write a draft for a project that he’d been thinking about for a few years: a film that would deal with the ongoing climate crisis. Previously, he’d written four or five premises, half a page each, to try and crack the idea, but nothing felt right. It wasn’t until he spoke to a friend of his — journalist David Sirota, who was frustrated with the lack in coverage of the climate crisis — that he felt he finally hit the jackpot.
“David made a comment about how [the climate crisis was like] an asteroid [about] to hit the planet and no one cares — and it was perfect,” McKay tells. “I liked it because it could be funny too, and it’s a big, clear idea that a lot of people can enter. That was it.”
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