Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for the ending of “Don’t Look Up.”
Adam McKay’s cosmic end-times satire “Don’t Look Up” quickly became the most-viewed original movie on Netflix over the holiday weekend. Endless social media debates over the movie’s quality or scientific accuracy — it’s about a comet on a planet-annihilating collision course toward Earth — aside, viewers who stayed for the comedy’s mid- and post-credits scenes were in for some wild surprises. According to director McKay in a new interview with Variety, the film’s final moments were actually wrought out of the actors’ improv.
In a mid-credits sequence, chainsmoking President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and baby-voiced, uncanny-valley-looking billionaire tech mogul Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) escape the planetary apocalypse on a space ship outfitted for the super-rich. They emerge, 22,740 years later, naked from their cryo-chambers and onto an uncharted planet, where CGI-rendered creatures proceed to eat Orlean alive,...
Adam McKay’s cosmic end-times satire “Don’t Look Up” quickly became the most-viewed original movie on Netflix over the holiday weekend. Endless social media debates over the movie’s quality or scientific accuracy — it’s about a comet on a planet-annihilating collision course toward Earth — aside, viewers who stayed for the comedy’s mid- and post-credits scenes were in for some wild surprises. According to director McKay in a new interview with Variety, the film’s final moments were actually wrought out of the actors’ improv.
In a mid-credits sequence, chainsmoking President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and baby-voiced, uncanny-valley-looking billionaire tech mogul Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) escape the planetary apocalypse on a space ship outfitted for the super-rich. They emerge, 22,740 years later, naked from their cryo-chambers and onto an uncharted planet, where CGI-rendered creatures proceed to eat Orlean alive,...
- 12/29/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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