Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.Most Hollywood disaster movies are about humanity’s heroic efforts to avert a crisis.
From The Towering Inferno to Independence Day, Armageddon and Deep Impact, movies usually show humanity triumph and persevere.
Don’t Look Up is not that kind of movie.In Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, scientists Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discover a comet headed towards Earth.
When they alert President Orlean (Meryl Streep), they are frustrated to find she and her staff dismiss their warnings. Mindy and Dibiasky find the media even less receptive to the impending crisis.McKay and David Sirota’s story and McKay’s script satirizes the forces that fail to respond to a preventable crisis.
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