Regardless, right wing, left wing, whatever, all that nonsense.

I mean, the last five, ten, twenty, thirty years have been just a careening grand guignoll storm.

And I think we deserve we deserve the right to laugh about it a little bit.

Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In today's episode, two Michigan State astronomers discover that a planet-killing comet the size of Mount Everest is hurtling toward the Earth,

and director Adam McKay's new sci-fi comedic drama, Don't Look Up.

With only six months until the comet makes impact,

they embark on a media tour to try to get the world to take the situation seriously

before it's too late.

In addition to Don't Look Up, Mr. McKay's credits include the feature films,

Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy,

Talladega Knights, The Ballad of Ricky

Bobby, The Big Short, and Stepbrothers, and Episodes, and Episodes of Saturday Night Live, Eastbound

and Down, and the pilot episode of Succession. Following a recent screening of the film at the

DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Mr. McKay gives insight into the making of

Don't Look Up with fellow director Barry Jenkins.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

I agree. I second that emotion.

So we were just talking backstage or outside, whichever one it is, and you said something. I knew that my first statement was going to be, but then you kind of took it from me because you said this really wonderful thing. How do you make a movie? How do you dramatize the end of the world when the end of the world is actually happening?

And so tell me about the process of deciding to make, don't look up.

How do you make a movie about the end of the world when the end of the world is happening?

That was the question.

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