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Adam McKay On ‘Don’t Look Up’s Oscar Noms & Real-World Impact, ‘Bad Blood’ Rewrites, Upcoming HBO Max Series ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ & Lakers Passion Project ‘Winning Time’

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After watching his end-of-the-world satire Don’t Look Up notch four Oscar nominations this morning, in the categories of Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Original Score and Editing, writer-director Adam McKay spoke with Deadline about the film’s recognition and its real-world impact, as well as upcoming projects ranging from the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, to his HBO Max series The Uninhabitable Earth and his Elizabeth Holmes film Bad Blood for Apple.The filmmaker, who shared an Oscar with Charles Randolph in 2016 for the Big Short’s screenplay, said that he’ll be delving deep into both of the latter projects in April, shortly after concluding press for Don’t Look Up and his work on Winning Time.

The story of Bad Blood, starring Jennifer Lawrence, has evolved of late in real time, meaning that the script will need to be further refined before production can begin. “That was a very interesting project because…the story hadn’t run its course when Vanessa Taylor wrote the first draft.

I did a rewrite and it never really had the ending,” he said. “Obviously we all now know that the ending has been reached, that verdict [against Theranos founder Holmes] was levied, [though] I don’t think they’ve done sentencing yet.

So, I’m going to take a whole new approach at that [and] look at the draft that we left it off with.”The Uninhabitable Earth, which is billed as a travelogue of the near future and the impending terrors we will all face, will also soon be top priority, engaging with sociopolitical themes including climate change, which McKay had addressed through metaphor with Don’t Look Up. “That’s the next one I’m jumping into,” said McKay of the anthology series. “I’m going to write and direct the

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