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

Online videos spread both “Don’t Look Up” and “Just Look Up” messages while an Indian commentator criticizes the exclusion from the mission.

Scene 155 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Guys In A Huddle
Dude On Diddly
More Guys In A Huddle
Raghav
French Prime Minister

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:43 into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 155

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 152
Kate and Randall urge people online to look up and see the comet for themselves.
Scene 153
Randall tells a children’s-show puppet and actors that everyone will die and insults Orlean and Isherwell.
Scene 154
Orlean tells a stadium rally that the “Just Look Up” movement wants people afraid.
Scene 155
This scene

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Videos pop up on Vroom Vroom and a variety of other sites.

GUYS IN A HUDDLE

Don’t Look Up! Don’t Look Up! Don’t

Look Up!

DUDE ON DIDDLY

They want to rob you of your

freedom. And that’s a fact!

MORE GUYS IN A HUDDLE

Don’t Look Up! Don’t Look Up! Don’t

Look Up!

A live stream flooded with comments pops up with famous celebrity RAGHAV.

RAGHAV

The U.S. President, Orlean, has not

included India or any other nation

in the world to be a part of this

mission.

Video of DUDE ON DIDDLY pops back up holding up the magazine with Randall on the cover.

DUDE ON DIDDLY

This dude is a known pornographer

named Kip...

Another Diddly Video pops up of the FRENCH PRIME MINISTER.

FRENCH PRIME MINISTER

The United Nations have been

considering its own deflective

mission.

Back to RAGHAV.

RAGHAV

Just Look Up, for fuck’s sake!