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

As they wait to brief the President, Kate vomits at the prospect of announcing humanity’s deadline.

Scene 14 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Air Force General Themes
Kate
Dr. Oglethorpe
Randall

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 10 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 14

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 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
Oglethorpe and General Themes meet Kate and Randall outside the Oval Office.
Scene 14
This scene

14INT. WHITE HOUSE - LATER - DAY

Randall, Kate, Dr. Oglethorpe and General Themes sit waiting in the hall outside the Oval Office.

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES

Michigan State...Spartans.

Kate nods.

KATE

Is that the oval office?

She points directly across from them.

AIR FORCE GENERAL THEMES

Yeah, that’s the Oval Office, yeah.

It’s a lot smaller than it is in

pictures.

DR. OGLETHORPE

The President should be here

shortly. She’s already been

briefed, correct Scott?

General Themes nods.

Kate whispers to Randall.

KATE

Are we really about to tell the

President of the United States that

we have just over six months before

mankind and pretty much all life on

planet earth are completely

destroyed?

RANDALL

That’s exactly what we’re about to

do.

Kate motions for the WASTEBASKET and BEGINS TO THROW UP.

MAIN TITLE: DON’T LOOK UP