Adam McKay is the Academy Award-winning writer and director behind such films as The Big Short, Anchorman, Vice and Step Brothers. Dr. Amy Mainzer is an astronomer, professor and the principal investigator of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE). Adam's new film is Don't Look Up which Amy was the science advisor on. The film follows two astronomers, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who discover a comet that will destroy the Earth. The cast includes Jonah Hill, Meryl Streep, Rob Morgan, Cate Blanchet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, among others.

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