Don't Look Up · written by Adam McKay · 2021

Drask salutes Earth and praises white people over the radio.

Scene 118 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Benedict Drask

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Begins 1:09 into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 118

After PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky discovers a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, she and Professor Randall Mindy try to persuade a politically distracted President, a media-saturated public, and a powerful technology company to stop it before impact.

Scenes 1–7
Kate and Randall work within the familiar routine of astronomy and university research.
Scenes 8–26
They discover the impact deadline and need the government and public to respond, but Orlean refuses immediate action.
Scenes 27–60
Kate and Oglethorpe take the warning outside official channels, entering the press and television world to reach the public.
Scenes 61–72
The scientists navigate conspiracy claims, arrest, and political reversal as Orlean finally announces a deflection mission.
Just before
Scene 115
Shuttles and satellites blast off from Kennedy Space Center.
Scene 116
Drask sings as he rides the shuttle into the sky.
Scene 117
The situation room celebrates the successful launch as Isherwell urgently summons Orlean aside.
Scene 118
This scene

118INT. SHUTTLE COCKPIT - THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE - SAME TIME

Drask shakes and rattles in the cockpit.

BENEDICT DRASK

And a big hello to that beautiful

blue ball we call home. All those

hard working white folks. God bless

ya!