Don't Look Up

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Don't Look Up
A Netflix poster featuring various characters looking up and the tagline "Based on truly possible events".
Release poster
Directed byAdam McKay
Screenplay byAdam McKay
Story by
Produced by
  • Adam McKay
  • Kevin Messick
Starring
CinematographyLinus Sandgren
Edited byHank Corwin
Music byNicholas Britell
Production
company
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • December 5, 2021 (2021-12-05) (New York City)
  • December 10, 2021 (2021-12-10) (United States)
  • December 24, 2021 (2021-12-24) (Netflix)
Running time
138 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[3]
Box office$1.5 million[4][5]

Don't Look Up is a 2021 American science fiction black comedy film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay, and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande and Scott Mescudi. It tells the story of two astronomers attempting to warn humanity about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization. The impact event is an allegory for climate change, and the film is a satire of government, political, and media indifference to the climate crisis.[6][7]

Produced by Hyperobject Industries and Bluegrass Films, the film was announced in November 2019 and sold by Paramount Pictures to Netflix several months later. Lawrence became the first member of the cast to join, with DiCaprio signing on after his discussions with McKay on adjustments to the script; the rest of the cast was added through 2020. Filming was initially set to begin in April 2020 in Massachusetts, but was delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; it eventually began in November 2020 and wrapped up in February 2021.[8]

Don't Look Up began a limited theatrical release on December 10, 2021, before streaming on Netflix on December 24. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast but were divided on the merits of McKay's satire; some found it deft, while others criticized it as smug and heavy-handed. The film has received more positive reviews from scientists. Despite the critical reception, the film was named one of the top ten of 2021 by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute. It received four nominations at the 79th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, and six at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture. Don't Look Up set a new record for the most viewing hours in a single week on Netflix, and went on to become the second most-watched film on Netflix within 28 days of release.

Plot[]

Kate Dibiasky, a Michigan State University astronomy Ph.D. candidate, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy, confirms that it will collide with the Earth in about six months and is large enough to cause a planet-wide extinction event. NASA confirms the findings and their Planetary Defense Coordination Office head, Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe, accompanies Dibiasky and Mindy to present their findings to the White House. They are met with apathy from President Janie Orlean and her son and Chief of Staff, Jason.

Oglethorpe urges Dibiasky and Mindy to leak the news to the media, and they do so on a morning talk show. When hosts Jack Bremmer and Brie Evantee treat the topic frivolously, Dibiasky loses her composure and rants about the threat, prompting widespread online mockery. Mindy, on the other hand, receives public approval for his looks. Actual news about the comet's threat receives little public attention and the threat is denied by Orlean's Director of NASA, a top donor to Orlean with no background in astronomy. When Orlean is involved in a sex scandal with her Supreme Court nominee, she diverts attention by confirming the threat, and announcing a project to strike and divert the comet using nuclear weapons.

The mission successfully launches, but Orlean abruptly aborts it when Peter Isherwell, the billionaire CEO of tech company BASH and another top donor, discovers that the comet contains trillions of dollars worth of rare-earth elements. The White House agrees to commercially exploit the comet by fragmenting and recovering it from the ocean, using technology proposed by BASH, in a scheme that has not undergone peer review. The White House sidelines Dibiasky and Oglethorpe, while hiring Mindy as the National Science Advisor. Dibiasky tries to mobilize public opposition to the scheme, but gives up under threat from Orlean's administration. Mindy becomes a prominent voice advocating for the comet's commercial opportunities and begins an affair with Evantee.

World opinion is divided among those who decry alarmism and believe that mining a destroyed comet will create jobs, and those who deny that the comet even exists. Dibiasky returns home to Illinois and begins a relationship with Yule, a shoplifter she meets at her retail job. After Mindy's wife confronts him about his infidelity, she returns to Michigan without him. Mindy questions whether Isherwell's technology will be able to break apart the comet, angering the billionaire. Mindy, becoming frustrated with the administration, rants on live television, criticizing Orlean for downplaying the impending apocalypse and questioning humanity's indifference.

Cut off from the administration, Mindy reconciles with Dibiasky as the comet becomes visible from Earth. Mindy, Dibiasky, and Oglethorpe organize a protest campaign on social media, telling people to "Just Look Up", and call on other countries to conduct comet interception operations. China, India, and Russia have been cut out of the comet-mining deal, so they prepare a joint effort to deflect the comet, but an explosion destroys their spacecraft. BASH's attempt at breaking the comet apart also goes awry, and everyone realizes that humanity is doomed.

Isherwell, Orlean, and others in their elite circle board a sleeper spaceship designed to find an Earth-like planet, inadvertently leaving Jason behind. Orlean offers Mindy two places on the ship, but he declines, choosing to spend a final evening with his family, Dibiasky, Oglethorpe, and Yule. As expected, the comet hits Earth, causing a worldwide disaster and triggering an extinction-level event.

In a mid-credits scene, the 2,000 people who left Earth before the comet's impact land on a lush alien planet 22,740 years later, ending their cryogenic sleep. They exit their spacecraft naked and, admiring the habitable world, Orlean is suddenly killed by a large bird-like creature she had tried to pet as the others are slowly surrounded by them...

A post-credits scene shows Jason emerging from the rubble, having survived the comet, calling for his mother, and trying to post on social media using his phone.

Cast[]

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio (left) and Jennifer Lawrence (right) as astronomers who discover the planet-killing comet
  • Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, an MSU (Michigan State University) doctoral candidate in astronomy. Lawrence received top billing in the film's opening credits, and was listed first on the call sheet. She recognized that she and DiCaprio shared equal billing, but said that, "maybe somewhere down the line, I kicked the stone further, like, 'What if it wasn't equal?'".[9]
  • Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, an astronomy professor at MSU
  • Rob Morgan as Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe, head of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office
  • Jonah Hill as Jason Orlean, Chief of Staff and Janie's son. About his inspiration for his character, Hill wrote, "I thought, what if Fyre Festival was a person and that person had power in the White House".[10]
  • Mark Rylance as Peter Isherwell, tech billionaire CEO of the fictitious BASH and one of Orlean's top donors
  • Tyler Perry as Jack Bremmer, anodyne co-host of The Daily Rip morning talk show
  • Timothée Chalamet as Yule, a young shoplifter whom Kate befriends
  • Ron Perlman as Colonel Benedict Drask, war veteran and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who is sent up with the initial launch to divert the comet
  • Ariana Grande as Riley Bina, international music star
  • Scott Mescudi as DJ Chello, international music star and Riley's fiancée
  • Himesh Patel as Phillip Kaj, journalist at Autopsy and Kate's boyfriend
  • Melanie Lynskey as June Mindy, Dr. Randall Mindy's wife
  • Michael Chiklis as Dan Pawketty, host of the conservative Patriot News Network
  • Tomer Sisley as Adul Grelio, senior editor at The New York Herald
  • Paul Guilfoyle as US Air Force Lieutenant General Stuart Themes, Pentagon liaison to the White House
  • Robert Joy as Congressman Tenant
  • Cate Blanchett as Brie Evantee, co-host of The Daily Rip
  • Meryl Streep as Janie Orlean, President of the United States

Additionally, Robert Hurst Radochia and Conor Sweeney appear as Randall and June's sons, Evan and Marshall Mindy. Hettienne Park appears as Dr. Jocelyn Calder, the Head of NASA. There are cameo appearances by Liev Schreiber as the BASH narrator, journalist Ashleigh Banfield as Dalia Hensfield, Sarah Silverman as Sarah Benterman, Bollywood actor Ishaan Khatter as Raghav Manavalan and Chris Evans (uncredited) as film actor Devin Peters who attempts to be a centrist about whether or not to worry about the failure to divert the comet when humanity had the chance.[11]

Production[]

Adam McKay at the world premiere of Marvel's "Ant-Man".
Writer, director, and producer Adam McKay

Produced by Hyperobject Industries and Bluegrass Films, the film was announced in November 2019 and sold by Paramount Pictures to Netflix several months later. Lawrence became the first member of the cast to join, with DiCaprio signing on after his discussions with McKay on adjustments to the script; the rest of the cast was added through 2020. Filming was initially set to begin in April 2020 around the U.S. state of Massachusetts but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it eventually began in November 2020 and wrapped up in February 2021.

This movie came from my burgeoning terror about the climate crisis and the fact that we live in a society that tends to place it as the fourth or fifth news story, or in some cases even deny that it's happening, and how horrifying that is, but at the same time preposterously funny.[12]

— Adam McKay, writer, director, and producer of Don't Look Up

After Vice was released, David Sirota asked Adam McKay to use his "superpowers of humor and writing" to create a climate change movie that would be different from the Mad Max-type post-apocalyptic films that had previously been released.[13] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, McKay described how he and Sirota came up with the premise of Don't Look Up while discussing the existential threat of climate change and their frustration over the lack of media coverage it was receiving:

I started talking to a lot of [climate] scientists. I kept looking for good news, and I never got it. Everything I was hearing was worse than what I was hearing on the mainstream media. So I was talking to [David Sirota], and we were both just like, "can you believe that this isn't being covered in the media? That it's being pushed to the end of the story? That there's no headlines?" And Sirota just offhandedly said, "it's like a comet is heading to Earth and it's going to destroy us all and no one cares." And I was like, "that's the idea!"[14]

McKay has described the film as a "blend of broad comedy" with elements of disaster films and horror films.[15]

Astronomer Amy Mainzer, principal investigator of NASA's NEOWISE mission that tracks Near-Earth objects, served as an "astrotech adviser" for the film. She provided scientific advice and supported with writing scenes from an early stage of production.[16][17]

On November 8, 2019, it was announced that Paramount Pictures would distribute the film, with Adam McKay writing, directing, and producing under his Hyperobject Industries banner.[18] On February 19, 2020, Netflix acquired the film from Paramount and Jennifer Lawrence was cast in the film.[19] On May 12, 2020, it was announced that Cate Blanchett had joined the film.[20] In September 2020, Rob Morgan joined the cast.[21] In October 2020, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, and Tomer Sisley were added.[22][23] McKay wrote the part of Dibiasky specifically for Lawrence, and spent four to five months going over ideas with DiCaprio, tweaking the script before the actor ultimately signed on.[24] In November 2020, Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey, and Ron Perlman joined the cast.[25] Mark Rylance, and Michael Chiklis were revealed as part of the cast in February 2021.[26] Paul Guilfoyle was announced in May.[27] Matthew Perry had scenes filmed with Hill that were ultimately cut from the final film.[28] Gina Gershon also filmed a scene with DiCaprio and Blanchett which have also got cut out from the film.[29]

Principal photography was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[30] Filming commenced on November 18, 2020, at various locations in Boston, Massachusetts.[31] Part of the film takes place in New York City with Boston standing in as New York. Filming also took place in other Massachusetts cities including Brockton, Framingham, and Westborough.[a][32][33] On February 5, 2021, Jennifer Lawrence was mildly injured during filming when a controlled glass explosion went awry.[34] On February 18, 2021, principal photography wrapped.[35]

To promote the film, Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi released the single "Just Look Up" on December 3, 2021, a song that is also performed in the film.[36]

Release[]

On February 19, 2020, it was announced Netflix planned to release the film in 2020.[19] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, filming and release of the film were delayed.[37] The film premiered in New York City on December 5, 2021.[38] It received a limited theatrical release on December 10, and began streaming on Netflix on December 24.[39][40]

Reception[]

Audience viewership[]

Don't Look Up was the most-streamed English-language film on Netflix during the week of December 20–26, 2021 with a viewership of 111.03 million hours,[41] the second highest viewership for a movie during its debut weekend on Netflix.[42] It was the second most-streamed-film of the week in the United States according to TV Time.[43] Per Nielsen, the film had a viewership of 1.6 billion minutes in the United States.[44] In the second week, it retained its first position with a viewership of 152.29 million hours,[45] which also set the record for highest weekly viewership for any film ever on Netflix.[46][47] It was the second most-streamed-film in the United States according to Nielsen with a viewership of 2 billion minutes, with its rise compared to previous week driven by a more even audience share among the 18–34, 35–49 and 50–64 age ranges.[48]

The film retained its position on Netflix in third week with a viewership of 58.2 million hours.[49] In the fourth week it was displaced to the second position while garnering a viewership of 28.39 million hours.[50] In the fifth week, which concluded 30 days after the film was released, it fell to the third position while garnering a viewership of 17.13 million hours.[51] For its first 28 days, it culminated a viewership of 359.8 million hours, making it the second most-watched film within 28 days of release on Netflix during this period of time.[52] In the sixth week it was ranked fourth with a viewership of 10.25 million hours.[53]

Box office[]

The film made an estimated $260,000 from 500 theaters on its first day, and a total of $700,000 in its opening weekend.[54]

Critical response[]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 56% of 270 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on."[55] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 49 out of 100 based on 51 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[56]

The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle praised the film and wrote, "Don't Look Up might be the funniest movie of 2021. It's the most depressing too, and that odd combination makes for a one-of-a-kind experience. Writer-director Adam McKay gives you over two hours of laughs while convincing you that the world is coming to an end."[57] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars and said: "From Streep and DiCaprio and Lawrence through the supporting players, Don't Look Up is filled with greatly talented actors really and truly selling this material—but the volume remains at 11 throughout the story when some changes in tone here and there might have more effectively carried the day."[58] Reviewing the film for the Los Angeles Times, Justin Chang wrote, "Nothing about the foolishness and outrageousness of what the movie shows us—no matter how virtuosically sliced and diced by McKay's characteristically jittery editor, Hank Corwin—can really compete with the horrors of our real-world American idiocracy."[59] Amit Katwala of Wired concluded that "Don't Look Up nails the frustration of being a scientist."[60] Linda Marric of The Jewish Chronicle gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "There is something genuinely endearing about a film that doesn't seem to care one bit about coming across as silly as long as its message is heard".[61] Shruti Kotiya of Sportskeeda, suggests that "Don't Look Up also feels similar to Mike Judge's Idiocracy, which is set in 2505 America, where mindless entertainment and violence are what really matter. It also sheds light on how the world's collective IQ has hit its lowest, which is why Don't Look Up is like a 21st-century version of it."[62]

In a negative review, David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A cynical, insufferably smug satire stuffed to the gills with stars that purports to comment on political and media inattention to the climate crisis but really just trivializes it. Dr. Strangelove it ain't."[63] Peter Debruge of Variety called the film a "smug, easy-target political satire" and wrote, "Don't Look Up plays like the leftie answer to Armageddon—which is to say, it ditches the Bruckheimer approach of assembling a bunch of blue-collar heroes to rocket out to space and nuke the approaching comet, opting instead to spotlight the apathy, incompetence and financial self-interest of all involved."[64] In The Guardian, Charles Bramesco wrote that the "script states the obvious as if everyone else is too stupid to realize it and does so from a position of lofty superiority that would drive away any partisans who still need to be won over."[65] Madeline Fry Schultz of the American conservative publication Washington Examiner wrote that "McKay manages to deliver nothing more than a derivative and meandering "satire" of capitalism, Donald Trump, and climate deniers that will be forgotten in less than six months."[66] Kyle Smith of American conservative publication National Review wrote that the film "expends 140 brain-injuriously unfunny minutes... propelling low-velocity spitballs at social media, Washington, tech moguls, Trumpism, and (this detail feels thrown in at the last minute) anti-vaxxers."[67]

Nathan J. Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, believes that "critics were not only missing the point of the film in important ways, but that the very way they discussed the film exemplified the problem that the film was trying to draw attention to. Some of the responses to the movie could have appeared in the movie itself."[68] In The Guardian, Catherine Bennett viewed the film as astute and was caustic about the critical reviews.[69] Writing for the American socialist publication Jacobin, Branko Marcetic says that the plot of the film, while absurd, hardly exaggerates, noting that "much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational as in the movie."[70] British journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot wrote in The Guardian that "no wonder journalists have slated it … it's about them" and added that for environmental activists like himself, the film, while fast‑paced and humorous, "seemed all too real".[71] In contrast, Paul Tassi of Forbes argues that critics can and should examine the artistic standards and underlying message separately and then goes on to describe the film as "somewhat condescending".[72]

Reception among scientists[]

Since the film's release, numerous climate scientists and climate communicators have offered positive opinions on the film.[73][74][75]

In an opinion piece published in The Guardian, climate scientist Peter Kalmus remarked, "Don't Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it's also the most accurate film about society's terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I've seen."[76] Climate scientist Michael E. Mann also expressed support for the film, calling it "serious sociopolitical commentary posing as comedy".[77] In an article for Scientific American, Rebecca Oppenheimer questioned the film's use of a comet impact as an effective metaphor for climate change, given the large differences in timescale of these differing potential extinction crisis events and the nature of their impacts, but praised its depiction of science denialism and depiction of a botched attempt to address a "planet-killer" comet.[16]

One of the scenes in the film was compared on social media to a situation in Brazil. In that situation, microbiologist and science communicator Natália Pasternak Taschner criticized a news report made by TV Cultura on a live broadcast in December 2020. They told the Brazilian population to face the COVID-19 pandemic with "lightness", minimizing the risks. They also put pressure on the public to be content and uncritical of the Jair Bolsonaro administration's lack of effective response to the pandemic.[78] Hearing about the comparisons, Pasternak thanked McKay, DiCaprio and Lawrence on Twitter with the video subtitled in English to thank them for the "incredible" film.[79]

Accolades[]

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
AACTA International Awards January 26, 2022 Best Supporting Actress Cate Blanchett Nominated [80]
AAFCA Awards January 17, 2022 Best Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Won [81]
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards March 18, 2022 Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Pending [82]
American Film Institute Awards January 7, 2022 Top Ten Movies of the Year Don't Look Up Won [83]
British Academy Film Awards March 13, 2022 Best Film Don't Look Up Pending [84]
Best Actor in a Leading Role Leonardo DiCaprio Pending
Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay Pending
Best Original Music Nicholas Britell Pending
Critics' Choice Movie Awards March 13, 2022 Best Picture Don't Look Up Pending [85]
Best Acting Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Pending
Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Pending
Best Score Nicholas Britell Pending
Best Song "Just Look Up" Pending
Best Comedy Don't Look Up Pending
Detroit Film Critics Society Awards December 6, 2021 Best Film Don't Look Up Nominated [86]
Best Director Adam McKay Nominated
Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Won
Georgia Film Critics Association Awards January 14, 2022 Best Original Song "Just Look Up" Nominated [87]
Golden Globe Awards January 9, 2022 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Don't Look Up Nominated [88]
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio Nominated
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Jennifer Lawrence Nominated
Best Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Nominated
Hollywood Critics Association February 28, 2022 Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Pending [89]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 17, 2021 Best Original Score – Feature Film Nicholas Britell Won [90]
Best Original Song – Feature Film "Just Look Up" Nominated
Best Original Song – Onscreen Performance Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Awards February 19, 2022 Best Picture Don't Look Up Nominated [91]
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Original Song "Just Look Up" Nominated
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards February 19, 2022 Best Contemporary Make-Up, Feature-Length Motion Picture Liz Bernstrom, Julie LeShane, Claudia Moriel, Joseph Dulude ll Pending [92]
National Board of Review December 3, 2021 Top Ten Films Don't Look Up Won [93]
Producers Guild of America March 19, 2022 Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures Adam McKay and Kevin Messick Pending [94]
San Diego Film Critics Society Award January 10, 2022 Best Comedic Performance Leonardo DiCaprio Nominated [95]
Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Runner-up
Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Won
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards January 10, 2022 Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Nominated [96]
Screen Actors Guild Awards February 27, 2022 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The cast of Don't Look Up Pending [97]
Set Decorators Society of America Awards February 22, 2022 Best Achievement in Decor/Design of a Contemporary Feature Film Tara Pavoni and Clayton Hartley Pending [98]
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards December 19, 2021 Best Score Nicholas Britell Nominated [99]
Best Comedy Film Don't Look Up Runner-up
Writers Guild of America March 20, 2022 Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Pending [100]

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Additional filming locations include Canton, Chicopee, Fall River, Norton, Salisbury, Weymouth, and Worcester.

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