I really hope this movie helps shake the world into action. It's been an honor to be part of such an important project. Thanks to and Jennifer Lawrence for the shout out. On a personal level, this was a really nice moment at last night's #DontLookUp premiere. Here's a clip in which McKay and Lawrence talk about Sirota's contribution to Don't Look Up. He admits that while she "was super-nice to both of us, she was much more impressed by Emily's work in the legislature - and rightly so." But then, all of a sudden, they're sending me the paperwork."įilming took place in Boston during a pandemic period when the Colorado General Assembly was in session, and because his wife, Emily Sirota, is a state representative, David wasn't able to visit the set, which he admits is "a real bummer." But the Sirotas were able to attend the movie's recent premiere, and at the afterparty, David got to thank Streep for her work. Sirota's reaction? "I didn't eye-roll him, exactly, but I didn't really believe it was going to happen. I gave him some notes, he polished it some more, and then he said, 'We're really going to do this.'" I think that could be the movie.' So we spitballed it a little more, had fun with it, threw out some different ideas, and then he wrote the script. It's got to be something that uses your comedic powers.'"Īdds Sirota: "We were bouncing ideas around, and at one point, I said, 'It's really like an asteroid is headed toward Earth and no one seems to care.' And he said, 'Wait a minute. I said to him, 'You've got to use your superpowers to do some kind of climate movie, but it can't be a Mad Max, post-apocalypse film. "He's a politically aware, politically engaged person, and after his movie Vice came out, we were discussing the climate crisis. "I've known Adam for a very long time, all the way back into the early George W. Here's how Sirota outlines the project's genesis: "I think one of the genius things about how he wrote this movie," Sirota maintains, "is that he's using the techniques of a blockbuster, Armageddon-style action movie in order to deliver a very serious message in part about climate change and whether we accept basic science." But while Sirota acknowledges that Don't Look Up delivers plenty of guffaws, he stresses that the script McKay penned based on the ideas the two of them conceived has much more to say. The IMDB summary line for the film - "Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth" - makes it seem like a broad brink-of-doom satire. But while he has some well-known show-business connections ("Dave Sirota" is a recurring character on The Goldbergs ), the latest item on his résumé is still a stunner: He receives a story credit and is a co-producer on Don't Look Up, a movie that debuts on Netflix and in theaters today, December 10, and is considered a likely Oscar contender thanks to its acclaimed director, Adam McKay, and a cast that includes Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry. Denver-based David Sirota is best known as a journalist whose work has appeared in many national and local publications, including this one, and he played a prominent role in the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders.
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