Do not Look Up encompasses a fake authorities PSA urging Americans to name a sure 1-800 quantity for 'peace of thoughts' in regards to the lethal comet dashing in direction of the planet.
'Proper now, hundreds of thousands of you're having theses similar doubts and questions in regards to the approaching comet,' White Home chief science advisor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) says within the movie.
'That's the reason BASH Mobile, at the side of the USA authorities, is creating a brand new hotline, freed from cost, to reply all your questions. And who is aware of? Possibly, simply perhaps one among our scientists will be that buddy all of us must lean on throughout unsure occasions.'
Nonetheless, when viewers name 1-800-532-4500, it results in an obvious cellphone intercourse line: 'Welcome to America's hottest hotline. Guys, sizzling girls are ready to speak to you. Press one now. Girls, to speak to fascinating and thrilling guys free, press two to attach free now.'
Director Adam McKay clearly arrange the joke, contemplating most films use the favored 555 to start fictional cellphone numbers.
The $75-budget satirical catastrophe comedy is at present ranked No. 2 on Netflix and is within the high 10 in 92 international locations, having been streamed an eye-popping 111M hours between December 20-26.
It is a powerful feat contemplating the dismal 56% critic approval ranking (out of 230 critiques) on Rotten Tomatoes, nevertheless it did fare higher with viewers with a 77% viewers rating (100+ rankings).
Do not Look Up's star-studded ensemble forged consists of Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, and Melanie Lynskey.
This Friday at 7pm PST, DiCaprio and McKay will settle for the SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Prize throughout a livestream awards Q&A with physicist Joseph Barranco through sffilm.org.
'The brilliance of this screenplay is the analogy of creating it a comet that's going to wipe out mankind inside a six-month timeframe created this large sense of urgency, reasonably than some slow-moving local weather behemoth narrative,' the 47-year-old Oscar winner informed the Chicago Solar-Instances on Sunday.
'It actually got here at this particular second in time, like movies like Community or Dr. Strangelove, that basically encapsulates what we're going by way of as a tradition. It completely held a mirror to our society and the way we cope with the local weather disaster, that we simply let it proceed and do not take the actions that we have to take as a way to survive on this planet.'
DLU can even compete for six trophies - together with finest image - on the twenty seventh Critics' Selection Awards, which was scheduled to air subsequent Sunday on TBS/The CW however has since been postponed because of COVID-19.
