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

Oglethorpe and General Themes meet Kate and Randall outside the Oval Office.

Scene 13 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Air Force General Themes
Dr. Oglethorpe
Randall

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Begins 9 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 13

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.
Scene 8
Independent calculations agree the comet will hit Earth in six months and fourteen days.
Just before
Scene 10
Kate and Randall sit alone in the vast cargo hold of the C-5.
Scene 11
The C-5 crosses from night into day.
Scene 12
The C-5 lands at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling, and Kate and Randall step into the light.
Scene 13
This scene

13INT. WHITE HOUSE - 30 MINUTES LATER - DAY

Randall and Kate, both pulling their bags on wheels walk down a hallway and catch Dr. Oglethorpe and AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES, 61, a straight ahead General with a permanent resting smirk, mid-conversation.

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES

Brendan?

DR. OGLETHORPE

Yeah, Brendan.

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES

Brendan. Oh you’d think he was--

It’s all politics Teddy.

Randall and Kate walk up.

DR. OGLETHORPE

You must be Randall and Kate. I’m

Dr. Oglethorpe but you can call me

Teddy.

RANDALL

I’m sorry, did you say your name

was....I should call you Teddy?

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES

Yeah, you know we call him Teddy

because he ain’t no Teddy Bear.

General Themes, I’m the Pentagon’s

eyes on whatever this turns out to

be.

Everyone shakes hands.

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES (CONT'D)

The President is famously late. And

you’ve had a long flight so.

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