The journalist is nominated alongside director Adam McKay for best original screenplay for the Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence-starrer.
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in December about how he’d wanted to write a movie addressing climate change, but had been struggling to conceive a workable premise. Three years ago, his friend Sirota gave him the idea for the Netflix film, which tells the story of how an asteroid hurtling toward Earth is ignored by politicians and society in favor of profit and campaigning.
“David made a comment about how [the climate crisis was like] an asteroid [about] to hit the planet and no one cares — and it was perfect,” McKay explained. “I liked it because it could be funny too, and it’s a big, clear idea that a lot of people can enter. That was it.”
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