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

Jack and Brie prepare for the Daily Rip broadcast and introduce the day’s political coverage.

Scene 39 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Jack Bremmer
Brie Evantee
Studio Manager

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 35 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 39

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.
Scene 27
After Orlean tells them to wait until after the midterms, Oglethorpe and Kate decide to leak the evidence to the press.
Just before
Scene 36
Randall panics during preparation for the Daily Rip appearance while Kate tries to plan their explanation.
Scene 37
June and the Mindy sons prepare to watch Randall on television.
Scene 38
Randall tries to calm himself in the studio bathroom before going on air.
Scene 39
This scene

39INT. THE DAILY RIP STUDIO - CONTINUOUS

We meet our hosts: JACK BREMMER, 48, in the know but also a bit charmingly dumb and BRIE EVANTEE, 45.

JACK BREMMER

You gotta stop drinking the cheap

shit.

BRIE EVANTEE

It was only two glasses.

JACK BREMMER

Yeah, two and half.

A studio manager

STUDIO MANAGER

Alright we’re twenty out, let’s

make sure on our eyelines.

That we’re not looking at Jack and

Brie. And...cue the package.

OPENING VT PACKAGE FOR THE DAILY RIP PLAYS

Brie gets a last look from Jack.

BRIE EVANTEE

(adjusting her breasts)

Ladies ok?

JACK BREMMER

(to Brie)

Yes.

(to camera)

Aw Brie, I’ve got something for you

today. Listen to this. President

Orlean’s Supreme Court nominee

Sheriff Conlon has now been

identified as appearing in a soft

core porn cable show from the early

90s...