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

Randall prepares anxiously for another Daily Rip appearance as the hosts discuss a movie opening on the predicted impact day.

Scene 144 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Jack Bremmer
Brie Evantee

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Begins 1:33 into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 144

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.
Scenes 73–122
Their warning appears to win official action and a national launch, though Randall’s celebrity role and BASH’s access undermine the effort.
Scene 123
The shuttles turn back toward Earth, revealing that the administration has halted its announced defense.
Just before
Scene 141
Randall questions Isherwell’s science at a BASH hangar, and Isherwell uses personal data to threaten him with a lonely death.
Scene 142
Kate drinks with Yule and his friends; she rejects his kiss, then decides to make out with him because they are all going to die.
Scene 143
Kate’s diet app shows twenty-five days until its countdown ends.
Scene 144
This scene

144INT. MAKEUP ROOM - THE DAILY RIP - TWO DAYS LATER

CU of Randall’s face as makeup is being applied and hair is being styled. For the first time in a while he looks anxious. We hear the show from the monitor.

JACK BREMMER (O.C.)

The movie will be released the day

that some believe Comet Dibiasky

will impact the planet. And early

word is it’s already a classic.

BRIE EVANTEE (O.C.)

Oh yes and what a stellar cast. I

always love Devin Peters. He’s

great in everything he does. What’s

it called again?