: Astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) discovers a previously unknown comet, which her professor, Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), calculates will strike Earth in approximately six months.

: After leaking the news to the media, their message is treated as a lighthearted joke on the morning talk show The Daily Rip . Dibiasky is mocked as "crazy" for her emotional outburst, while Mindy is labeled a "sexy astronomer". Greed vs. Survival

: As the comet strikes Earth, the wealthy elite (including President Orlean and Peter Isherwell) flee on a cryogenic sleeper ship. Meanwhile, Dr. Mindy, Dibiasky, and their loved ones share a final dinner together as the world is destroyed.

: 22,740 years later, the survivors land on a lush new planet, only for the President to be promptly eaten by an alien creature called a Bronteroc . Don't Look Up / Не смотрите наверх (2021)

: A mission to deflect the comet is aborted when billionaire tech CEO Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) discovers the comet contains trillions of dollars in rare-earth elements. He convinces the government to try to fragment and mine the comet instead.

: The comet is large enough to cause a global extinction event, effectively ending all life on the planet. A World of Indifference

In the satirical disaster film , the story follows two low-level astronomers who discover a planet-killing comet and struggle to convince a distracted world to take the threat seriously. The Discovery and the Threat