Leonardo DiCaprio’s Don’t Look Up was one of the biggest coups Netflix announced in its upcoming slate of releases earlier this year.
Don't Look Up - a black comedy which sees DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists who embark on a world tour to try to convince humanity of their discovery of an asteroid that threatens to destroy Earth - has a cast full of A-listers.
Directed and directed by Anchorman and The Big Short’s Adam McKay, DiCaprio and Lawrence are joined by some of the biggest names in cinema.
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This is everything we know about it so far.
When is the Don't Look Up Netflix release date?
Don’t Look Up will be on Netflix from December 24, but it will have a limited run in cinemas from December 10 too.
It is one of the last of Netflix’s slate of 2021 releases to hit screens, after the streamer promised a new film a week throughout the year.
Who is starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Don't Look Up?
The cast is stuffed with star names alongside DiCaprio’s Dr Randall Mindy.
Jennifer Lawrence
Lawrence is Dr Kate Dibiasky, Mindy’s professional partner and fellow doom-monger. Don’t Look Up will be Lawrence’s first film appearance since X-Men movie Dark Phoenix in 2019.
She picked up a Best Actress Oscar win in 2013 for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, and played Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games saga.
Her other hits include Darren Aronofsky’s horror Mother! and the black comedy American Hustle.
Rob Morgan
Alongside arthouse films, Morgan has appeared in several Marvel TV shows, including Daredevil, Luke Cage, The Punisher, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist.
He’s also been a regular in Stranger Things, as Officer Powell, as well as playing Councilman Sol Brown in This Is Us.
Jonah Hill
The one-time Superbad star and all-purpose funny guy has turned into a men’s style figurehead and moved into directing with his well-received 2018 debut Mid90s.
He and DiCaprio have worked together before on Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, and his other big films include Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 21 Jump Street and Moneyball.
Hill plays Jason Orlean, the son of the US President.
Meryl Streep
Who else could play the US President herself?
We’d be here all day listing Streep’s filmography, but she’s been nominated for a total of 21 individual Oscars and won four times, with her first win coming in 1978 for The Deer Hunter. She is, obviously, a legend.
Mark Rylance
Rylance was the first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from 1995 to 2005, and is one of the most widely respected actors working today.
His career on screen really took off with a leading role in the BBC’s Wolf Hall as Sir Thomas Cromwell opposite Damian Lewis’ Henry VIII, and since then he’s been in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies.
Cate Blanchett
The Australian actor is another Oscar winner in the cast, having picked up Best Supporting Actress for The Aviator in 2005 and Best Actress for Blue Jasmine in 2014.
You’ve seen her before in Thor: Ragnarok, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and as Galadriel in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies.
What other new movies are coming to Netflix in 2021?
There are a lot of new original films coming to Netflix this year, including The Guilty, a crime thriller from the man behind True Detective which stars Jake Gyllenhaal, and the Idris Elba Western The Harder They Fall.
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds will lead the action thriller Red Notice, and Lin-Manuel Miranda writes and directs his own musical Tick, Tick… Boom!
Halle Berry’s directorial debut is coming in December too, in the form of the MMA-fuelled drama Bruised.
