Two astronomers discover a comet on a collision course with Earth, and the hardest part of the job turns out to be getting anyone in power to care.
What is Don't Look Up about?
After spotting an object large enough to end civilization, a junior researcher and her academic advisor try to sound the alarm through the ordinary channels available to scientists: briefings, television appearances, a scramble of meetings with officials who seem more interested in polling numbers than orbital math. What follows is less a disaster countdown than a study in how a slow-moving catastrophe gets filtered through news cycles, corporate interests and a political class that treats an extinction-level threat as one more talking point to manage rather than a problem to solve. The pair's growing frustration, as their warnings get flattened into soundbites and their credibility gets picked apart on air, drives a story about the distance between having the facts and getting anyone to act on them.
About the cast
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play the two scientists at the center of the story, with Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance and Tyler Perry filling out a large ensemble around them. The cast spans government, media and tech figures who each pull the response to the discovery in a different, often self-serving direction.
Context & significance
Adam McKay directs a satire that uses its premise as a lens on how institutions handle inconvenient warnings, pairing broad comic exaggeration with a genuinely bleak undercurrent about short-term thinking winning out over long-term survival. Released in 2021, the film arrived amid ongoing public debate about how societies respond to slow-building crises, and it leans into that discomfort rather than softening it, mixing star-driven comedy with a pointed argument about media incentives.
Watching Don't Look Up on Ktime
K-Time carries Don't Look Up with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers a choice of format. The listing page is free to browse, and access to stream the film itself just requires logging into a K-Time account, with a paid subscription behind it. The platform's Farsi-first design makes it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to search out and settle into a satire like this one.