According to BoundingIntoComics:
Winter’s comments seemingly come following backlash to critic reviews of the recently released Netflix film Don’t Look Up that follows “two astronomers [as they] go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.”
The film is about climate change according to its director Adam McKay. As part of a conversation with director Joe Wright published by Variety, McKay stated, “It came to me from the place that a lot of good ideas come from, which is stark terror. This has been building for 10 or 12 years, where the climate crisis and everything I’ve learned about it just seems worse.”
He added, “A friend of mine, David Sirota, made a joke about it, that a comet is going to hit Earth, and no one cares. Little did I know that a once-every-200-years pandemic was heading towards us.”
