Adam McKay hearts activists who try to wreck priceless works of art.
How else can you explain the Oscar-winning director's support for the Climate Emergency Fund, infamous for paying eco-radicals to invade art museums. He wrote the group a $4 million check back in 2022, and he's yet to ask for a refund.
Has any journalist asked McKay about supporting the potential destruction of precious art, especially since he's an artist himself?
It's unclear. Variety just lobbed softballs at the director in connection with his new project, "Just Look Up." The film, the latest in a very long line of Climate Change documentaries,
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- Before the Flood (2016)
- Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (2021)
- Chasing Coral (2017)
- Chasing Ice (2012)
- I Am Greta (2020)
- Planet of the Humans (2019)
- Kiss the Ground (2020)
- 2040 (2019)
- Greedy Lying Bastards (2011)
- To the End (2022)
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
- The Hottest August (2019)
- The Human Element (2018)
- Merchants of Doubt (2014)
- 11th Hour (2007)
Have any, beyond Al Gore's "Truth," moved the needle on the subject? (And consider how badly that film's predictions turned out). Most make a microscopically small amount at the box office - "To the End" brought in roughly $15K during its theatrical run.
Now, it's McKay's turn to promote climate alarmism. Again. He previous scared us via 2021's "Don't Look Up," the starry Netflix comedy that snagged a Best Picture Oscar nomination.
He also co-produced "Thrash," a eco-thriller that recently bowed on Netflix, too. Up next? The eco-series 'The Uninhabitalble Earth."
Subtlety isn't his strong suit.
As for his latest project, "Just Look Up" spotlights Michael Greenberg, the founder of Climate Defiance, as he leans into his radical eco-activism. He's a stand-up comedian prone to disrupting public events, like gatherings of oil executives.
It's a safe bet Paramount+'s "Landman" won't feature him prominently next season. Or, he could be a perfect villain for Billy Bob Thornton's character, a bare-knuckled fixer for Big Oil types.
McKay isn't the director this time around. He's an executive producer, lending his green gravitas to the project. That, an interviews like this, prove he's further to the Left than the modern-day Democratic party.
Really.
The Democratic Party can be every bit as much destructive on the climate as the Republican Party...It really all boils down to money.
McKay is a talented director, no doubt. He gave us memorable comedies like "Anchorman" and "The Big Short," and he's produced significant work like HBO's "Succession."
Sadly, he no longer teams with Will Ferrell for big, bawdy comedies, and he still thinks yet another Climate Change documentary will change the way we think about the environment after decades of doom and gloom predictions that didn't pan out .
Now, that's funny.
