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Don't Look Up
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)
Running time
138 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[3]
Box office$1.4 million

Don't Look Up is a 2021 American satirical science fiction film written, produced, and directed by Adam McKay. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two astronomers attempting to warn humanity, via a media tour, about an approaching comet that will destroy human civilization. Supporting them are Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, with Cate Blanchett and Meryl Streep.[4] The film is a satire of government and media indifference to the climate crisis.[4][5] Grande and Mescudi also collaborated on the song "Just Look Up" as part of the film's soundtrack.[6] The film is dedicated to Hal Willner who died in 2020.

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 the rest of 2020. Filming was originally set to begin in April 2020 around the U.S. state of Massachusetts, but was delayed until November due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and then lasted through February 2021.

Don't Look Up began a limited theatrical release on December 10, 2021, prior to streaming on Netflix on December 24, 2021, where it became the number-one film on the platform. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cast but found McKay's approach to the subject heavy handed. Despite the reviews, it was named one of the top ten films of 2021 by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute, and 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.

Plot

Kate Dibiasky, a Michigan State University astronomy PhD candidate doing work with the Subaru Telescope, discovers a previously unknown near-Earth object. Her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy, calculates that the comet will impact Earth in about six months, and is large enough to cause a planet-wide extinction event. NASA internally confirms Mindy's calculations. Accompanied by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office head Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe, Dibiasky and Mindy present their findings to the White House but are met with apathy from President Janie Orlean and her son, Chief of Staff Jason Orlean. Oglethorpe urges Dibiasky and Mindy to leak the news to the media, which they do on a morning talk show hosted by Brie Evantee and Jack Bremmer. When the hosts do not take the threat seriously, Dibiasky loses her composure and rants about the threat, prompting widespread online mockery. Dibiasky's boyfriend publicly denounces her, while Mindy receives public approval for his good looks. The actual news about the comet's threat receives little public attention. Furthermore, the threat of the comet is publicly 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, she diverts attention and improves her approval ratings by confirming the threat of the comet and announcing a project to launch a spacecraft that can strike and divert the comet using nuclear weapons. The spacecraft successfully launches, but is forced to turn back by Orlean when Peter Isherwell, the billionaire CEO of BASH and another of Orlean's top donors, discovers that the comet is composed of 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 new technology proposed by BASH's Nobel Laureates that has not undergone scholarly peer review. The White House sidelines Dibiasky and Oglethorpe, while hiring Mindy as the National Science Advisor. Dibiasky reveals the government's plan to let the comet hit Earth, sparking riots worldwide. Orlean's administration threatens Dibiasky into silence. 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 demand total destruction of the comet, those who decry unjustified alarmism and believe the mining of the comet will create jobs, and those who deny that the comet even exists.

Dibiasky returns home to Illinois and begins a relationship with Yule. Mindy's wife, June, discovers his infidelity, and he becomes angry, voicing his frustrations on live television, launching into a rant criticizing Orlean's administration for downplaying the impending apocalypse and questioning humanity's indifference. Cut off by Orlean's administration, Mindy reconciles with Dibiasky as the comet becomes visible from Earth. As Mindy, Dibiasky and Oglethorpe organize a protest campaign on social media against Orlean and BASH telling people to "Just Look Up" and calling on other countries to conduct operations of their own to deflect the comet, Orlean's administration launches an opposing campaign, "Don't Look Up".

When Orlean cuts out China, India and Russia from the comet mining deal, the three countries conduct a joint attempt of their own to deflect the comet, but their spacecraft explodes at launch. BASH's attempt at breaking the comet apart also goes awry and fails, leading to Isherwell, Orlean and other wealthy people fleeing Earth on a spaceship designed to keep its passengers alive cryogenically while it seeks the nearest Earth-like planet. Orlean offers Mindy two places on the ship, but he declines, choosing to spend his last moments in the company of his family, Dibiasky, Yule, and Oglethorpe. The evacuees inadvertently leave Jason behind. The comet hits the planet, killing all life on Earth.

After 22,740 years, the people who left Earth before the impact land on a lush alien planet, ending their cryogenic sleep. They exit their spacecraft nude and mostly empty-handed. Orlean is quickly killed and eaten by an alien creature called a Bronteroc, while more Bronterocs approach the humans, presumably killing them offscreen. A post credits scene shows Jason, who survived the comet, posting on social media after emerging from the rubble alone.

Cast

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio (left) and Jennifer Lawrence (right) as the astronomers who discover the planet-killing comet

Additionally, Robert Hurst Radochia and Conor Sweeney portray Randall and June's sons, Evan and Marshall Mindy, respectively. There are also cameo appearances by Liev Schreiber as the Bash narrator, journalist Ashleigh Banfield as Dalia Hensfield, Sarah Silverman as Sarah Benterman, Chris Evans (uncredited) as actor Devin Peters[7] and Ishaan Khatter as an online video streamer Raghav Manavalan.[8] Matthew Perry had scenes filmed with Hill that were ultimately cut from the final film.

Production

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

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.[9] On February 19, 2020, Netflix acquired the film from Paramount and Jennifer Lawrence was cast in the film.[10] On May 12, 2020, it was announced that Cate Blanchett had joined the film.[11] In September 2020, Rob Morgan joined the cast.[12] In October 2020, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi), and Tomer Sisley were added.[13][14] 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.[15] In November 2020, Tyler Perry, Melanie Lynskey, and Ron Perlman joined the cast.[16] Mark Rylance, and Michael Chiklis were revealed as part of the cast in February 2021.[17] Paul Guilfoyle was announced in May.[18]

Principal photography was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[19] Filming commenced on November 18, 2020, at various locations in Boston, Massachusetts.[20] 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][21][22] On February 5, 2021, Jennifer Lawrence was mildly injured during filming when a controlled glass explosion went awry.[23] On February 18, 2021, principal photography wrapped.[24]

DiCaprio received top billing on the posters and marketing while Lawrence received top billing in the film's opening credits, appearing half a second on-screen before DiCaprio's name.[25]

Release

On February 19, 2020, it was announced Netflix planned to release the film in 2020.[10] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, filming and release of the film were delayed.[26] The film premiered in New York City on December 5, 2021.[27] It received a limited theatrical release on December 10, and began streaming on Netflix on December 24.[28][29]

Though Netflix does not publicly release box office grosses, the film made an estimated $260,000 from 500 theaters on its first day, and a total of $700,000 in its opening weekend.[30]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 55% of 214 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's 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."[31] Also, the Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 50 out of 100, based on 46 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[32]

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."[33] 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."[34] 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."[35] 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."[36]

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."[37] 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."[38] Charles Bramesco, in The Guardian, writes 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."[39] Croatian prime minister Andrej Plenković also recommended the movie for everyone to watch when answering the journalist's question about Covid-19 vaccination scepticism in his country. He described the movie as "a story of information chaos and bizzare assestments".[40]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
AACTA International Awards January 26, 2022 Best Supporting Actress Cate Blanchett Pending [41]
American Film Institute Awards January 7, 2022 Top Ten Movies of the Year Don't Look Up Won [42]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 9, 2022 Best Picture Don't Look Up Pending [43]
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 December 6, 2021 Best Film Don't Look Up Nominated [44]
Best Director Adam McKay Nominated
Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Nominated
Best Original Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Won
Golden Globe Awards January 9, 2022 Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Don't Look Up Pending [45]
Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio Pending
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Jennifer Lawrence Pending
Best Screenplay Adam McKay and David Sirota Pending
Hollywood Critics Association January 8, 2022 Best Ensemble The cast of Don't Look Up Pending [46]
National Board of Review December 3, 2021 Top Ten Films Don't Look Up Won [47]
Hollywood Music In Media Awards November 17, 2021 Best Original Score - Feature Film Don't Look Up Won [48]

Notes

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

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