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

An actor at a movie junket calls for people to stop arguing and presents his film as apolitical entertainment.

Scene 156 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Entertainment Journalist
Devin Peters

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Begins 1:44 into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 156

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 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
Online videos spread both “Don’t Look Up” and “Just Look Up” messages while an Indian commentator criticizes the exclusion from the mission.
Scene 156
This scene

156INT. MOVIE JUNKET SET - DAY

DEVIN PETERS talks to an ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST with a TOTAL DEVASTATION poster behind him.

ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST

Now I know a lot of Hollywood is

supporting the Just Look Up

movement but I haven’t seen a pin

like that.

DEVIN PETERS

Yeah, this pin points up and down.

Because I think, as a country, we

need to stop arguing and “virtue

signaling.” Just get along.

ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST

That is sooo refreshing. I think

we’re all tired of the politics.

DEVIN PETERS

Yeah. That’s why we made Total

Devastation. It’s for everyone, you

know? It’s a popcorn movie.