Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett: casting at 11 Oscars for “Don’t Look Up”

It’s possible that the Academy Award-winning Academy will find “Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial” a little too hip for them. Corn Adam mckay, director and screenwriter of this film, could repeat the feat of “The Big Short: the Heist of the Century”, which won him the Oscar for best screenplay in 2016, and dealt with the financial crisis of 2008. And then, together, the cast of “Don’Look Up: Cosmic Denial” brings together several already Oscar-winning actors. Thereby, Leonardo DiCaprio, himself, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett. An American colleague calculated that together, this cast already totaled eleven Oscars. At the very least, one would expect him to get a bunch of nominations.

DiCaprio camps, here, a professor of astronomy, from a university of Michigan, where one of the students discovers that a comet 5 to 10 kilometers long is about to fall, within six months, on the Earth. And without a doubt, will destroy our planet. Named “Comète Dibiasky”, named after the student played by the wonderful Jennifer Lawrence, will be the stake of a campaign of the two scientists and will lead them to the White House. Where presides a female version of Trump – Meryl Streep has obviously had fun in this role – which at first makes them hang around for nearly twenty-four hours. The President of the USA is fed up with meetings where it is about the end of the world and don’t be shy to say it.

Getting a better reception at the editorial staff of the New York Herald (the equivalent of the New York Times), the two astronomers are embarked on the world of media – where they are told about media training – and that of TV on Fox News. … In a talk show, where scientists are mixed with showbiz stars (Ariana Grande in a super funny caricature of herself), DiCaprio has a panic attack and Jennifer Lawrence yells: “We’re all going to die!” Atmosphere. The video of the young astronomer goes viral and she quickly gets a “meme” …

The announcement of the end of the world is finally timely for the President of the USA who sees how to use it to win the first round of the next elections. Here she gets on the war footing and launches a large-scale space operation to detonate the comet.

As we can see, the film abounds in scriptwriting finds, criticism at all costs, aligns characters of pure comedy very inspired by reality … We are even entitled to some beautiful scenes with Timothée Chalamet as a young rock’n’roll skater which holds the high in DiCaprio. This is to say that we love it!