Deadline:

Netflix has boarded Adam McKay’s new comedy feature Don’t Look Up, which Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence will star in. Deadline first broke the news about the project last November when we announced the Oscar-winning Big Short filmmaker’s new first-look deal at Paramount under his label Hyberobject Industries.

Don’t Look Up tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth. Production will begin in April for a release later this year.

Sounds like a fun movie. I feel like Lawrence has some comedy chops which have been woefully underused, so I look forward to seeing what she and McKay can do together.

That said: will it be another Netflix movie which releases to a cultural indifference? We’ll see.