The official trailer for Netflix‘s impending end-of-the-world comedy Don’t Look Up, directed by acclaimed director Adam McKay, whose previous projects include Vice, The Big Short, Step Brothers, the Anchorman movies, and more, has been released. The next picture stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Kid Cudi, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Matthew Perry, and others.
In the film, DiCaprio and Lawrence play astronomers who must reveal information about a destructive, giant comet that is headed towards Earth and has the potential to destroy the entire world. Meanwhile, Streep, who plays the President of the United States, and Hill, who plays her Chief of Staff, are skeptical of the bizarre news.
“It’s definitely not as dark as ‘Vice,’” McKay said of the film during an episode of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast earlier this year. “‘Vice,’ I’d say, really probably ended up being a drama with some comedy. But ‘Big Short,’ still, even though there’s drama in it – I would say [‘Don’t Look Up’] is a tad more of a comedy than ‘The Big Short’…I don’t know if the Ferrell movies, because they’re so uniquely Will Ferrell – but somewhere in between ‘The Other Guys’ and ‘The Big Short,’ I’d say, is where this one lives.”
