Hyperventilating in a bathroom, the actor Leonardo Dicaprio sing repeatedly “You’re here now” in the opening moments of the trailer for Netflix of a new film portraying a fictional star threatening Earth.
We only have a few flashes of what we can expect from “Don’t look”, Which premieres in theaters on December 10th and arrives at Netflix worldwide the 24 des. For one thing, we still don’t know what comet is made of, how big it is, or its chances of hitting Earth.
But it doesn’t look good for humanity so far in this trailer. Military planes fly over the US Capitol. UU., Protests erupt across the country and the astronomer Kate Dibiasky (jennifer Lawrence) Look intently at the sky from the streets of the city of New York.
What is “Don’t look up”
The astronomy student Kate Dibiasky (jennifer Lawrence) And his teacher, the Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo Dicaprio), Make the amazing discovery of an asteroid orbiting the solar system.
The problem is that it is about to collide with the Earth. The other problem is that no one seems to care. It turns out that alerting humanity to the fateful collision of a rock the size of the Mount Everest it is considered inconvenient news.
With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a colossal media tour that takes them from President Orlean’s office (Meryl Streep) -Who remains indifferent- and his flattering son and chief of staff Jason (Jonah Hill), to air on The Daily Rip, a lively morning show with presenters Brie (Cate Blanchett) i Jack (Tyler Perry).
It’s only six months before the asteroid makes an impact, and its mission to navigate the complicated 24-hour news cycle and get the attention of socially obsessed audiences before it’s too late proves to be more comical than to imagine. What does it take for the world to turn its head and decide to look up?
“Your breathing is stressing me out,” U.S. President Jason Orlean’s son and chief of staff Jason Orlean (played by Jonah Hill) tells astronomer Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) in the Oval Office during a meeting to discuss the impending threat.
“Don’t Look Up” is directed by Adam McKay of “Ant-Man“I”The great short film“(Both of 2015); this will be his first major space film. The film also marks at least the fourth time DiCaprio i Hill appear in the same production, after “Django unleashed” (2012) “Wolf“(2013) i”The Wolf of Wall Street“(2013).
The protagonists have a remarkable experience in space films between them; DiCaprio was the narrator of the film IMAX of 2010 “Hubble“i Lawrence was a stranded journalist aboard an interstellar spacecraft in “Passengers“From 2016.
Don’t look up
“Don’t Look Up” follows decades of Hollywood legacy of actors finding all possible ways to get rid of impending comet and asteroid threats.
Some of the most famous movie links include “Armageddon“From 1998 starring Bruce Willis and a set of fictitious oil drills turned astronauts, “Deep impact“1998 with a young man Elijah Wood (Frodo 2001-03 “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy), “Looking for a friend for the head of the world“From 2012 with Steve Carell of the fame of “The Office”, and “Greenland” of 2020 that followed the aftermath of the arrival of a fictitious interstellar comet.
In real life, NASA is planning a launch in 2022 to send a spacecraft called DARD (Double asteroid redirection test) to finally crash into the asteroid moon Didymos, As a test for the deviation of asteroids in the future. The agency is also involved in preventive activities through its Planetary Defense Coordination Office, which searches for potentially dangerous asteroids through a network of telescopes and associated agencies.
The science of asteroids is evolving rapidly. For example, in early 2021, a potentially threatening asteroid called Apophis abandon its dangerous state for at least the next 100 years after new observations refined its predicted orbit.
Fortunately, ongoing observations of comets and asteroids show no imminent threats to our planet, but astronomers continue to search just in case.
The cast of “Don’t Look Up” is full of stars
A constellation of figures will fill the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis and Tomer Sisley, with Cate Blanchett i Meryl Streep