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How would the world react if scientists reliably informed us that a comet was set to collide with Earth \u2013 one that would instantly destroy all life on the planet? That\u2019s the question posed by Adam McKay in his new Netflix<\/a> film Don\u2019t Look Up<\/a>, which has now arrived on the streamer.<\/p>\n And the answer, according to McKay\u2019s film, is that the threat wouldn\u2019t be taken all that seriously, not to begin with at least.<\/p>\n Despite the best efforts of low-level astronomers Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) to explain the imminent catastrophe, the public in the film are more concerned with learning everything they can about a recent celebrity breakup, while the President cares far more about how she will fare in the upcoming midterm elections than the apparently apocalyptic impact of the comet.<\/p>\n However, as the film progresses, different characters begin to behave in drastically different ways as the reality of the situation becomes clear \u2013 with society becoming further divided on the issue and tech billionaire Peter Isherwell (Mark Rylance) hatching his own plan for how best to deal with the comet.<\/p>\n This all ends in an explosive finale, after which audiences are treated to an amusing post-credits scene that calls back to a joke earlier in the film. Read on for everything you need to know about that final scene.<\/p> When Peter Isherwell\u2019s plan to blow up the comet into several smaller ones \u2013 such that he can mine it for precious minerals \u2013 goes south, it seems that Earth is doomed, but Isherwell and some other lucky social elites have a plan B, managing to escape Earth on a secret ship before the comet hits.<\/p>\n In a mid-credits scene, we see this ship landing on a new planet millions of years later \u2013 with the escapees all emerging from the ship naked, having been in hypersleep for the duration of their journey.<\/p>\n President Orlean (Meryl Streep) originally seems to be enchanted by this colourful new paradise, but when she approaches an exotic-looking creature it doesn\u2019t seem so happy to see her \u2013 lashing out at her and proceeding to eat her alive.<\/p>\n This calls back to a moment earlier in the film, when Isherwell had used his latest technological innovation to predict how Orlean would die. At the time, his assertion that she would be \u201ceaten by a brontoroc\u201d sounded nonsensical \u2013 but this incident appears to prove that he was correct all along.<\/p>\n Following Orlean\u2019s death, several more of the mysterious animals appear and surround the other surviving humans \u2013 and it seems unlikely that they will avoid a deadly fate.<\/p>\n At the very end of the credits, there is one more brief scene. We see that Earth has become a total ruin, but it then emerges that there is one survivor \u2013 Jason Orlean, who had been left behind by the escape ship. The last thing we see him do is take out his phone to record a video. Alas, it seems no one else is around for him to share it with\u2026<\/p>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 24 December 2021 at 12:00 am How would the world react if scientists reliably informed us that a comet was set to collide with Earth \u2013 one that would instantly destroy all life on the planet? 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