
That came out of discussions with Scott Stuber from Netflix with Kevin Messick. The Jonah one is actually something we thought of on set. I did know, in the original script, that I would do some credits before I got to it. I thought it’d have power just by breaking that Hollywood narrative rule.”
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I always wanted the movie to end like that, and to remind us that’s not guaranteed. You actually have to do stuff to get a happy ending. I’ll just say for myself, maybe in some ways I take it for granted that it’s gonna work out, and I’ve forgotten that I actually have to be a part of doing the work.

These narratives that always end in a happy way, maybe we all expect it to work out. If you look at how we’re responding to the climate crisis, it’s just getting more and more urgent in a way nothing I’ve ever seen or even heard about, and I do think, and I would include myself in this, too, we have been turned into audience members, and we do tend to watch. We know they’re going to end with a happy ending, for the most part. “We’ve seen so many thousands of movies that, guaranteed, are gonna end with a happy ending, or the world’s gonna be saved, whether it’s disaster movies or James Bond movies or Marvel movies. To help break it all down, we spoke to McKay himself.

Having hidden away in a bunker, he miraculously survives the comet’s impact, though how long he’ll survive on a scorched Earth remains to be seen.) The mid-credits scene that follows, which reveals the ship’s landing, features that select group as they awaken to their new lives after years of cryosleep, as well as the president’s bloody fate at the hands of one of the new planet’s native animals. (As it turns out, there is one man left on Earth: Jason. Only the planet’s ultrarich, headed by Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance), manage to escape on a spaceship to find a habitable planet. In a sharp right turn from most Hollywood endings, Don’t Look Up ends with the destruction of Earth. So, yes, what follows below are major spoilers for Don’t Look Up ! But even the parts of the film that feel larger than life won’t prepare you for its finale. As scientists Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) attempt to convince the world that a comet is about to end all life on Earth, they run into their fair share of colorful characters, from President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her unctuous son Jason (Jonah Hill) to a religious skate punk (Timothée Chalamet). Visit the EO astronaut photography collection and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit.Don’t Look Up, the latest satire from director Adam McKay, ends on a somewhat shocking note.

Action video from ISS provided by NASA Johnson Space Center. Images: Astronaut photographs are provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. Writers and producers: Kathryn Hansen and Michael Carlowicz Picturing Earth: Astronaut Photography in Focus Learn more about astronaut photography and the ESRS team in parts 1 & 2 in the series: Meet the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit (ESRS), the researchers who guide astronauts as they observe and document changes on Earth and then make those photographs accessible to scientists and the public. Like the directors of any film, those astronaut storytellers have a crew working behind the scenes to help them tell that story.

From their perch on the International Space Station, astronauts have spent twenty years sharing a story about Earth as they can see it from above.
