“You’ve got great neighborhoods of all different kinds of styles: working-class, old-school middle class and rich neighborhoods, and you’ve got the countryside. “You’ve got a nice big beautiful downtown with older buildings and newer buildings, so we were able to double the downtown for multiple cities,” McKay said. McKay found everything he was looking for across the state. Massachusetts doubles for Michigan, New York, Washington, D.C., Hawaii and “little pops of other countries” around the world. “Don’t Look Up” also stars Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, Timothee Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill, Melanie Lynskey, Gina Gershon, Himesh Patel and Boston actors Chris Evans (“Captain America”) and Michael Chiklis ("The Shield.") The location of the first post-credits scene was filmed in Weymouth too, but to reveal is to spoil – it’s a funny payoff to a gag from earlier in the movie. The production crew built a model, fitted with hydraulics, at the Weymouth soundstage. The astronomers gaze through a huge Subaru telescope in the movie's opening scenes. “We had a dozen little living rooms in Saudi Arabia, Nairobi, Connecticut, China, all set up,” McKay said.
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Other scenes filmed in Weymouth are a Space Shuttle launch with actor Ron Perlman in the cockpit, and many of the cutaways of people watching TV around the world. She, for real, has one of the great voices I’ve ever heard,” he said. McKay said it was one of his favorite scenes. 'Don't Look Up' review: A search for laughs amid disaster, with DiCaprio, Streep, LawrenceĪt the Spire Center: Cher, Elvis, Bette and onstage at Spire as twin impersonators bring show to Plymouthįilm crews re-created London’s Wembley Stadium in the “The Hangout,” the hulking gray aircraft hangar at the old South Weymouth Naval Air Station, to shoot the “Last Concert to Save the World.” Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi belt out “Just Look Up,” the satirical love song that is generating Oscar buzz. “Anything with any sort of breadth or scope we shot in Weymouth,” said writer-director Adam McKay, an Oscar winner for "The Big Short." “It was a little cold, but it was a giant space and it totally worked. They try to warn the public, but no one takes their admonitions of the "extinction level event" seriously – even the president (three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep). The situation splits the country into two sides: those who believe the scientists and those who don’t.
24.ĭiCaprio (“The Revenant”) and Lawrence (“American Hustle”) play astronomers who discover that a 5-mile-wide, “planet-killing” comet is on a collision course with Earth – striking in six months and 14 days. The film debuts on the South Shore at Patriot Cinemas in the Hingham Shipyard and Showcase Cinemas in Randolph starting Thursday night. The town, more specifically the 33,000-square-foot former fighter-jet hangar at Union Point, is the location for some of the biggest scenes in the star-studded apocalyptic satire “Don’t Look Up” starring Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s the end of the world in Weymouth – but everything’s fine.