‘This Is Now’ Director Adam McCay ‘If We Don’t Take Immediate Action We’re Going To See this Civilization Collapse’
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“This is now,” writer-director Adam McKay told The Hollywood Reporter on the Jazz at Lincoln Center red carpet. “Right this second, the livable atmosphere is collapsing. We’re literally living in the movie. And if we don’t take immediate action, billions of people are going to die and we’re going to see this civilization collapse.”
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Though the Netflix film alludes to climate change throughout, it never directly addresses it, instead focusing on an extinction-level comet headed directly toward Earth that astronomy professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his PhD. candidate, Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), discover. The scientists take it to the president (Meryl Streep) and her son (Jonah Hill), kicking off a political and media frenzy on how to handle the impending doom.
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McKay and DiCaprio have been incredibly vocal about the urgency and importance of the climate crisis, and this isn’t DiCaprio’s first time tackling it in such a public forum. The Oscar-winning actor has made a documentary about climate change, urged Congress to pass legislation and denounced climate change deniers.
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“It’s really hard to reinvent the wheel as far as articulating the science of the climate crisis,” DiCaprio told reporters on the carpet. “What [McKay] did here was he created a sense of urgency, and we all wanted to be a part of a movie that, from an artistic standpoint, shifted the paradigm and made us start having conversations.”
Don’t Look Up hits theaters on Friday and starts streaming on Netflix Dec. 24.
