Writer-director Adam McKay (Vice, The Big Short) talks to The Independent's chief film critic, Clarisse Loughrey, about his environmental apocalypse comedy, Don't Look Up. McKay talks about how his star-filled film, in which two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth, relates to climate change and humankind's stasis in the face of calamity Don’t Look Up is available to watch on Netflix now: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81252357 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Claim an extended BFI Player Subscription free trial (UK only) - subscribe using code BFIYOUTUBE: http://theb.fi/player-subscription Watch more on BFI Player: http://player.bfi.org.uk/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/britishfilminstitute/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI