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

Kate tells Phillip that the White House made them wait for seven hours without hearing their warning.

Scene 19 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Kate

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The story so farBefore scene 19

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 16
While they wait, Kate and Oglethorpe follow celebrity news; Randall shares a Xanax with Kate.
Scene 17
The group waits until night, then learns the President will not meet them and is sent to a hotel.
Scene 18
Rain and traffic surround the Washington motel where the scientists are lodged.
Scene 19
This scene

19INT. KATE’S ROOM - WASHINGTON, DC - CONTINUOUS

Kate talks to her boyfriend PHILLIP KAJ, 28. INTERCUT.

KATE

And then they made us wait for

seven hours. And they never even

called us in. I couldn’t believe

it.