Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio and more will be in Adam McKay's apocalypse movie
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In February, we reported that Adam McKay had sold a new movie to Netflix called Don’t Look Up about a pair of scientists going on a PR tour to tell disinterested Americans about a meteor on a collision course with Earth. At the time, our own William Hughes noted that it was basically like the “superliminal” advertising approach from The Simpsons (“Hey you, join the Navy!”) but repurposed as a climate change metaphor—though scientists being ignored as they try to tell people about the destruction of the planet isn’t so much a metaphor as it is… literally what’s going on with climate change. Again: Superliminal.
Anyway, we knew at the time that Jennifer Lawrence would star as one of the scientists, and now Billboard says she’ll be joined by so many other famous people, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Himesh Patel, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Kid Cudi, Ariana Grande, and Matthew Perry. DiCaprio will apparently be playing the other scientist joining Lawrence on the “we’re all going to die” tour, while Grande’s appearance will be a “cameo.” If we had to guess, we’d say she’ll be playing herself and serving as an example of the kind of thing people care more about than the meteor, which means this probably won’t be a return to the Sam & Cat or Victorious glory days of Ariana Grande’s acting career.
Don’t Look Up will apparently start filming in mid-November, which seems optimistic, but who knows with this stuff.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio as scientists? I guess that’s better than Denise Richards and Mark Wahlberg.
Jennifer Lawrence IS Dr Chanukah!
They just need to add Matthew McConaughey as a theologian and it will be perfect.
Today I learned that Timothee Chalamet is also known as More.
“More” actually wouldn’t be a bad name for the next manufactured 19 year old pop star.
I’d put Mandy in front of it.
Today I learned he was Lorde.
SNL says he’s a 20 year old lemur.
Look up the pretty funny 2016 CW series ‘No Tomorrow’ for a similar ‘end-of-the-world but nobody believes me’ comedy premise. Last time I looked (long ago) it was on Netflix. Based on a Brazilian hit series named ‘How to Enjoy The End Of The World’, which looks even funnier but I’ve only seen a couple Youtube clips of that one.Oh there’s another one too. Episode 5 of the Korean sci fi anthology series ‘SF8′ entitled “Baby, it’s over outside”.
What rock did they turn over to find Matthew Perry?
Could you BE more sarcastic?!
If there was a meteor coming it seems like DiCaprio would just fuck a bunch of supermodels.
So you think that we should tell him that the big rock in the sky is the moon and not an incoming meteor?
Can you blame him?