Adam McKay on the Ending(s) of ‘Don’t Look Up’: DiCaprio’s Last-Minute Line, Streep’s Improv and Brontarocs

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Adam McKay on the Ending(s) of ‘Don’t Look Up’: DiCaprio’s Last-Minute Line, Streep’s Improv and Brontarocs
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DontLookUp attempts a tonal high-wire act; the movie is heading, after all, toward the end of the world. To bring about the film's goals, director Adam McKay wanted to take away the “guaranteed happy ending” that filmgoers have grown used to

’s “Don’t Look Up,” Michigan State astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky discovers a new comet. With her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy , they realize it’s heading toward Earth, and will cause an extinction-level-event for the entire planet in a little over six months. For the rest of the movie, Kate, Randall and Dr. Teddy Oglethorpe , of the, uh, Planetary Defense Coordination Office try to convince those in charge — U.S.

After Isherwell and Orlean ditch the mission control room to escape the planet, and Orlean forgets that her son and chief of staff, Jason exists, leaving him to die, she offers Randall a spot on the ship, which is decked out with cryo-chambers, and will search for a habitable planet. “I’m good,” he tells her, adding that she should have fun with Jason. “Jason?” she says. “Oh, shit.”

“And I was like, ‘Oh, you’re right. You’re right!’” McKay said. “I think we’re so used to thinking of religion as denominations, and now it’s become a political cudgel in this country. I forgot about faith. And it was just a lightbulb moment where it’s like, ‘I know who Timothée’s character is.’” With the addition of Chalamet’s Yule, McKay said, “the team was complete.

They started riffing, and it was decided that Hill would “die in three days from eating tainted human flesh.” McKay realized that Streep’s character would escape Earth, and posited, “What if you’re eaten by a creature?”

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