Adam McKay Teases His Don't Look Up Follow-Up As Big Dirty Money Drama
Adam McKay teases his Don’t Look Up follow-up, calling it a comedy/drama about “big, dirty money.” McKay first became a big-name director thanks to straight comedies like Talladega Nights, Anchorman and Step Brothers. But later he crossed over into more serious terrain with politically-charged but still sometimes wacky satires like The Big Short and Vice.
Having garnered serious Oscar attention for those two weighty comedic forays, McKay in 2021 unleashed the star-studded Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a satire about climate change and more specifically society’s inability to wrestle with the issue. The film was of course controversial in a lot of ways, but the Academy again embraced McKay’s approach, handing Don’t Look Up four Oscar nominations including one for Best Picture. The film unfortunately came away from Oscar night without snagging a single gold trophy.
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Don’t Look Up may have walked away without any gold at this year’s Oscars, but its writer-director remains undeterred. Indeed McKay is already working on a new project, which he teased during a Q&A at the recent Tribeca Film Festival. McKay briefly and somewhat vaguely described the new movie (via Deadline):
“If the last movie was about the outcome of what’s broken about us, that we’re staring at the collapse of the livable climate, this one is more about the actual arterial blocks in our hearts, what’s causing it, which is, of course, big, dirty money. And it’s a comedy as well … blended with drama, but I would overall call it a comedy.”
McKay has of course dabbled in complicated money-related matters before, having written and directed The Big Short, which tackled the 2008
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