I watched Don't Look Up on Netflix yesterday. It's a Black Comedy about two scientists (Leonardo Di Caprio and Jenifer Lawrence), who discover that a comet the size of Mount Everest is about to destroy the earth. They take this information to the US President (Meryl Streep), who is utterly inept and does nothing about it. So they contact the media and try and tell the world what's happened but nobody believes them and even when the comet is visible in the sky, millions of people deny it's existence due to the governments Don't Look Up campaign. Realising it is actually going to happen, the government get Nasa to launch a nuclear warhead to break it up, only they turn it round when a socially awkward tech billionaire who funded the presidents campaign tells her that she needs to use his experimental spacecraft to break it up into manageable pieces so they can mine it for $40tr of precious metals.
If it had just been released, everyone would claim they knew who the characters were based on, but it actually came out four years ago.
Life imitating art.
