DON’T LOOK UP; inset: Roland Emmerich.Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images; NIKO TAVERNISE/NETFLIX
Roland Emmerich, the director behind various large-scale disaster movies, wasn’t a big fan ofDon’t Look Up, the star-studded apocalyptic satire streaming on Netflix.
Emmerich, 66, is known for end-of-the-world spectacles like 2004’sThe Day After Tomorrow, 1996’sIndependence Dayand 2009’s2012. Speaking withThe Hollywood Reporterto discuss his latest flickMoonfall, the director comparedDay After Tomorrowto a more recent environmental disaster movie,Don’t Look Up.
“The Day After Tomorrowwas ahead of its time, and I’m a little bit worried thatDon’t Look Upwill not do anything. You have to really, really frighten people,” he said. “And at the end [ofDon’t Look Up] it’s like … they all sit there and eat and that’s it. And then, a very comedic scene with Meryl Streep. I didn’t care too much about it, with all the big actors and everything. Naw.”
Day After Tomorrow, which stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum and Sela Ward, depicts a sudden global storm that puts Earth in a deadly Ice Age.
“How far do you go? Are we goingtoofar? We want to feel sad, but we don’t want to be traumatized. Like, I want to tear up, but I don’t want to, you know — sob uncontrollably!” he toldVariety.
Director Roland Emmerich on set of Independence Day: Resurgence.Claudette Barius/Twentieth Century Fox
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McKay toldIndieWireearlier this month that he encourages debate around the movie and likes that audiences are divided.
“It’s important to have debate and passionate critics. We’re living at a time like no other and stories are part of it. People should be hating them, loving them, going back and forth,” he said. “We welcome the negative reviews. I actually think it’s really good, that people should be fighting and passionate about it.”
In September,DiCaprio told PEOPLE that McKay"has an unparalleled ability to spark conversation with humor and timely stories."
“I knew when I read his script that it was incredibly unique, as it struck an important chord concerning the modern world we live in,” he added at the time. “Adam has woven an incredibly timely message about society, how we communicate, our current priorities, and the climate crisis into an absurdly funny yet important movie.”
Moonfall, starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson, is in theaters Feb. 4.
source: people.com
