As McKay was writing, he didn’t know the pandemic was coming. “Don’t Look Up” equally pillories the left and the right (which are both run by corporate interests, repped by a Facebook-style magnate played by toothy, CGI-smoothed Mark Rylance) and the ad-driven media, personified by a manipulative anchorwoman (Blanchett). I wrote the outline off that, before COVID.” And all credit to David Sirota, who’s a brilliant journalist who also shares my frustration for the lack of urgency about this issue and offhandedly, three years ago, said to me, ‘It’s like the asteroid is going to hit Earth and no one cares.’ And I was like, ‘That’s it! I’m going to write that. “I wrote one-page treatments that were dramatic.
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“I’ve written a bunch of different ideas of how to enter the idea of the greatest, most important story in the history of mankind: the climate crisis,” said McKay. McKay’s latest was conceived and written as an allegory for the climate crisis. The Academy goes for comedy when the movie’s content itself is serious (“Broadcast News,” “Dr. (New York and Los Angeles Q&As are edited for clarity.) It’s really about climate change.
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