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The astronomers have six months. The White House isn’t picking up the phone.

Netflix dropped the first teaser for Don’t Look Up on September 8, and it’s the rare disaster-movie trailer that plays more like a satire of cable news than a warning about the sky. Written and directed by Adam McKay, the film follows two obscure astronomers who discover a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, then spend the rest of their time trying to get anyone in power to actually care.

• Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence star as Dr. Randall Mindy and grad student Kate Dibiasky, the astronomers racing to warn the public about a comet that will wipe out the planet in six months.
• The teaser shows the pair, alongside Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), getting brushed off by President Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her Chief of Staff son Jason (Jonah Hill) before taking their case to a morning show called The Daily Rip, hosted by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry.
• The ensemble also includes Mark Rylance, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Ron Perlman and Melanie Lynskey, with the film shot across Massachusetts after COVID-related delays pushed production into late 2020 and early 2021.

A Comet as a Stand-In for Climate Change

McKay built Don’t Look Up with journalist David Sirota as a direct allegory for climate denial and political inertia — swap “comet” for “carbon emissions” and the film’s satire barely needs decoding. The teaser opens on DiCaprio hyperventilating in a bathroom, a portrait of a scientist who understands the math and can’t get anyone else to sit still long enough to hear it. That panic curdles into farce once Mindy and Dibiasky reach Washington.

Streep’s President Orlean and Hill’s Jason treat an extinction-level event the way real officials treat an inconvenient poll number — something to manage, spin, or wait out until it stops being a problem in the news cycle. It’s a broader continuation of the same media-and-politics-skewering instincts McKay sharpened on The Big Short and Vice, just aimed at a planet-ending punchline instead of a housing collapse or a vice presidency.

“The film is about how humanity reacts in the face of an emergency, from a local and individual level to the national and global level,” McKay said.

The Daily Rip Segment

Unable to get traction with the White House, Mindy and Dibiasky pivot to television, landing a segment on the fictional morning show The Daily Rip. Blanchett and Perry play hosts Brie Evantee and Jack Bremmer with the kind of relentless, ratings-first cheer that makes an apocalypse sound like just another lifestyle segment sandwiched between weather and celebrity gossip. It’s the trailer’s sharpest joke: the people with the actual data get five minutes wedged between fluff, competing for attention against a news cycle that treats a doomsday warning as just another guest booking.

That contrast — two scientists screaming into a system built to smooth everything over — is the engine of the whole marketing rollout, and it lands harder given the cast delivering it. DiCaprio has an Oscar for The Revenant; Lawrence has Academy Award wins for Silver Linings Playbook and a nomination-heavy run that includes Joy. Putting that pedigree behind a comedy about being ignored is itself part of the joke.

The Production Behind the Punchline

McKay made the film under his Hyperobject Industries banner, with cinematographer Linus Sandgren (La La Land) and composer Nicholas Britell (Succession) rounding out a crew as decorated as the cast in front of the camera. Shooting largely took place across Massachusetts, with the production restarting in late 2020 and running into early 2021 after the pandemic forced an initial shutdown — a detail that adds an unintentional layer of irony to a film about a society failing to respond to a slow-moving crisis in real time.

Netflix has slotted the film for a limited theatrical run before it hits streaming globally in late 2021, the studio’s now-familiar playbook for awards-season prestige titles. Given the star power involved and McKay’s track record of turning finance-bro jargon and political dysfunction into box-office comedy, expect the studio to lean hard on this ensemble — DiCaprio, Lawrence, Streep, Blanchett and Hill all in one frame is exactly the kind of poster that gets a trailer talked about for a week straight, which is precisely what happened the day this one dropped.