Don’t Look Up: Ending Explained and Post Credit Scene Explained! Will The World Really End?

Don’t Look Up: How do you convince the world population that the world is about to end if all scientific, mathematical and photographic evidence is questioned, dismantled and ridiculed, by the authorities in charge or by those who do not even have the tools and knowledge to analyze it? This question – very topical – is at the basis of the challenge faced by the two scientists protagonists of Don’t Look Up. PhD student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and Professor Randall Mindy accidentally discover a comet during a night’s work on the telescope. From happiness to pure dismay: according to repeated calculations over and over again, the celestial body “as big as a mountain” will hit the Earth with a probability of 99.78% per cent.

Although these premises make us think of a disaster movie, Don’t Look Up is actually a satirical comedy that wants to photograph an extremely current social and political cross-section : the one that sees society approaching every theme and problem in a media key, following the rules and the patterns of television celebrity culture and Internet memes. An approach that makes it almost impossible to make a rational speech both with the greatest on earth (first of all with the White House) and with the public, as the two frustrated protagonists of Adam McKay’s new film will discover at their expense.

The question is no longer what we would do if we knew that the Earth is in danger of being destroyed, rather: if someone warned us of a danger “at a level attributable to the mass extinction of life on the planet”, would we believe them?

We Will All Die! 

In the final part of the film, we discover that United States President Janie Orlean is actually less superficial than she seems at first glance and much more selfish. In a kind of parody of the conspiracy anxiety of our time, in Adam McKay’s film the billionaires and most influential rulers of the world really have a plan b to try to escape once they understand the extent of the danger on Earth. Before leaving the planet, however, they want to try everything possible to get rich with the comet.

BASH tycoon Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) managed to block the first launch of shuttles with nuclear warheads towards the comet (launch that was proceeding in the best way and with a very good chance of success) because he discovered that the comet is very rich in rare and expensive materials on Earth. Materials that could make the government a multibillionaire that can get its hands on them. His very risky plan is to send robots to the celestial body that create a sort of guided micro – explosion, capable of fragmenting the comet into more “manageable” pieces., to be crashed into the Pacific Ocean and then recovered by the United States. For this reason, the president has already approved a huge allocation to the countries of South America that will be affected by an inevitable, catastrophic tsunami.

Randall is hired as the image man of the mission. The scientist, however, is suspicious of the validity of Isherwell’s plan, given that the specifics on how to deal with the dangerous guided disintegration operation of the asteroid have not been verified by the scientific community. In fact, BASH keeps the specifications of the plan confidential, eliminating anyone expressing concerns from its internal group of scientists.

When the comet appears in the sky, the world population begins to believe the words of scientists. The world follows BASH’s mission with bated breath, which turns out to be a failure. As taught by Randall, the relative calculations should have been better verified. The presidency – financed by BASH – has aborted the most concrete chance of stopping the comet for the profit of a private individual, which has faded into political tensions and a stalemate.

Randall and Kate reunite and support a fundraiser through the latest mega concert by pop star Riley Bina (Ariana Grande). Despite the funds raised and the attempt by other nations to attempt one last, desperate mission, humanity is unable to stop the comet. Randall and Kate decide to spend the last day on Earth together. The man manages to reconcile with his wife and children and also invites Teddy (Rob Morgan) and Yale (Timothée Chalamet) to the last supper. Unlike what BASH algorithms predict, Randall does not die alone, but surrounded by his family and friends.

The other characters instead die in the name of selfishness and self-centeredness that has always guided them. Journalist Brie Evantee (Cate Blanchett) doesn’t even want to have sex or meet a loved one. He prefers to drink alcohol and gossip about mutual acquaintances with his co-worker on live TV. The saddest end is that of President Orlean ‘s son , Jason (Jonah Hill). He would have had a seat aboard the spaceship in which the great rich of the Earth are leaving for a new habitable planet, but his mother simply forgot.On the road. The woman telephones Randall to offer him a place on the spaceship (given that Randall refuses) and only at the scientist’s direct question does she remember not to have made her son participate in the escape.

In the final scene of the film we see the comet hitting the Earth with enormous violence: it is clear that the planet will be destroyed and all life will be wiped out.

The Post Credit Scene From Don’t Look Up

22740 years after the comet’s collision with Earth, the BASH spaceship lands on a planet with conditions suitable for human life. Freeze-frozen human passengers are awakened. 48% of the 20,000 selected guests died from system malfunctions or failures, as predicted by the BASH algorithm.

Both the president and the founder of the company have survived and do not seem affected by the death of their traveling companions or the extinction of the Earth’s population. All naked, they begin to move on the surface of the planet they have just reached, when Janie is attacked by a dinosaur-like life form that had approached the group.

A broncotec, Isherwell understands: the algorithm was right. Newly arrived humans are surrounded by other similar animals – humanity will likely become extinct shortly thereafter.

How Does Don’t Look Up End?

BASH’s mission is a failure: Randall was right about the miscalculations and excessive risks of the plan of millionaire Peter Isherwell, which stopped for profit the more concrete possibility of destroying the comet before the crash.

Randall manages to reconnect with his family and decides to spend the last night on Earth with his wife and children, also inviting Kate, Yale and Teddy to his last supper.

The comet crashes to Earth, causing a catastrophe that will bring about the certain end of all life forms. The great rich and powerful of the world (President Orlean and Peter Isherwell) flee aboard a spaceship in search of another planet to inhabit. However, the woman forgets her son on Earth, who will die along with the rest of the population.

Is The Comet Crashes To Earth At The End Don’t Look Up.

Yup. Humanity cannot destroy it in time. Only a few rich and powerful of the world are temporarily saved, who flee aboard a spaceship.

Does Don’t Look Up Have An Post Credit Scene?

Yes, shortly after the start of the credits.

What Happens In The Don’t Look Up Post Credit Scene?

22740 years after the comet’s collision with Earth, the BASH spaceship lands on a planet with conditions suitable for human life. Cryo-frozen human passengers are awakened.

All naked, they begin to move on the surface of the newly reached planet, when Janie is bitten by a dinosaur-like life form that had approached the group, as predicted by the algorithm. Newly arrived humans are surrounded by other similar animals – humanity will likely become extinct shortly thereafter.

Who Dies at The End of Don’t Look Up?

Nobody is likely to be left alive at the end of the movie:

• Randall, Kate, Teddy, Yule, Riley, Brie and anyone left on Earth are involved in the catastrophic impact of the comet
• Jason could have saved himself by boarding the spaceship, but his mother forgot him during the escape
• The billionaires and powerful who fled the Earth and survived the 22,740 journey will likely all be killed by the local life forms that “welcome” them to the new planet, like Janie.