by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Here’s what I would do. I would open this revised version of Don’t Look Up with our intrepid scientists calmly getting ready for their big interview on the Morning Drip. The camera would focus on the prosaic elements of their preperation. Noting flashy. The sound would be ramped up so you could hear every move as they straighten their clothes, etc.
THEN, when they go on the show, you would have your big freak out — we learn that everyone knows that the earth has less than a year before the end of the world and absolutely no one is taking it seriously. You give Jennifer Lawrence her big freak out scene and the story gets going.
And then here would the biggest difference in the two versions of the movie — my version is a lot softer and meant to be played for drama, rather than hysterical comedy. There wouldn’t be so much fucking chaos that would turn people like me off.
The plot would be direct and calm. You could even focus methodically on how the end of the world is being treated as a lulz until in the third act, we finally get around to doing something about it for the stupidest reasons possible.
And, what’s more, the movie wouldn’t be so fucking bloated in its run time.
