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

Kate explains the comet’s impact course, but Jack and Brie joke about its danger until she angrily walks off set.

Scene 57 of 205 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Randall
Jack Bremmer
Brie Evantee
Kate

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Begins 42 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 57

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 54
Oglethorpe watches the broadcast and encourages Randall to continue.
Scene 55
Randall begins explaining that Kate found the comet while observing supernovas.
Scene 56
At Autopsy, a colleague asks Phillip whether Kate is his girlfriend.
Scene 57
This scene

57INT. THE DAILY RIP STUDIO - CONTINUOUS

RANDALL

...when she made a breathtaking and

once in a lifetime discovery.

JACK BREMMER

I had no idea that Suburu made

telescopes.

BRIE EVANTEE

Incredible.

JACK BREMMER

So this is really exciting. Tell us

what you found Ms. Dibiasky...

KATE

(a little awkward)

Well, I was monitoring exploding

stars... to help measure the

measurement expansion of the

universe-

BRIE EVANTEE

For your PhD...

KATE

Right. But I saw something I didn’t

recognize. It was a comet. A big

one. And it’s headed directly at

earth. And it very likely will hit.

JACK BREMMER

This sounds very, very exciting.

Exploding stars. Like stars

actually explode? Now how big is

this thing? Could it destroy

someone’s house? Is that possible?

RANDALL

Well Comet Dibiasky, which is what

it will officially be named-

JACK BREMMER

After her?

RANDALL

Yeah after her.

JACK BREMMER BRIE EVANTEE

Alright, Congratulations! Oh! Congratulations!!

RANDALL

It’s somewhere between 6 and 9

kilometers across. So, it would

damage the entire planet. Much more

than a house.

JACK BREMMER

The entire planet. Ok, so while

it’s damaging that, can it hit this

one house in particular, that’s

just off the coast of New Jersey?

It’s my ex-wife’s house. I just