The official trailer for Academy Award-winning director Adam McKay's new film, Don't Look Up, has been released.
The film, which will arrive on Netflix on Christmas Eve, has a star-studded cast including Hollywood heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet,Rob Morgan, Himesh Patel, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep to name a few.
The film centres on Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) who make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem — it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care.
Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry).
With only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle and gaining the attention of the social media obsessed public before it’s too late proves shockingly comical — what will it take to get the world to just look up?!