The Last Movie Ever Made: The Don't Look Up podcast
In early 2020, Adam McKay set out to make a comedy. It was called Don’t Look Up, and it was meant to make fun of, and point to, the forces stopping us from saving ourselves from climate change.
2020, of course, had other plans.
This is what happened when a cast and crew came together to make a disaster comedy, while living through a series of very uncomedic disasters. Featuring: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Rob Morgan, Himesh Patel, and many, many more.
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The Last Movie Ever Made: The Don't Look Up podcast is a podcast about making the box-office success, Don't Look Up.
The central figure in the podcast is Adam McKay. Before writing and directing this film, he had directed a long list of comedy blockbusters. Those include Talladega Nights, Anchorman, and Stepbrothers. McKay turned to social and political satire with The Big Short and Vice.
In 2019, McKay started making a movie lampooning the government and the media's inaction in the face of climate change. Instead of global warming, the threat would be a comet rushing toward Earth. Thus Don't Look Up was born. Of course, 2020 had other plans for McKay and the rest of the world. COVID-19 caused everything to shut down. Still, McKay decided to power through. In October 2020, a cast and crew of 603 people began filming outside Boston. The podcast walks listeners through this journey.
The Last Movie Ever Made: The Don't Look Up podcast is the story of what happens when a comet meets a pandemic. The story is bizarre and surrealistic. The cast and crew had to navigate a new world. They introduced masking and social distancing protocols on the spot. They built a soundstage in a car dealership. They faced novel technical challenges with the frigid Boston winter as a backdrop. How to film a riot in a major city during a pandemic? How to film a concert scene in a safe way? The podcast details it all.
The podcast also chronicles what was happening outside the movie's bubble. McKay and his crew watched as the White House produced a disaster comedy of its own.
McKay fans may delight in The Last Movie Ever Made: The Don't Look Up podcast's farcical retelling. The podcast offers interviews with the actors. Jennifer Lawrence, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, and Leonardo DiCaprio all appear. Don't Look Up became a sensation. The story of its making is as extraordinary as the movie itself. This podcast has six compelling episodes.
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