In screenwriter David Sirota’s political/social satire Don’t Look Up, an astrology student and her professor discover that a comet, large enough to destroy the world, will hit earth in a little over six months. Both try to warn key political and media figures about the impending apocalypse, but no one takes them seriously.

Sirota’s depiction of society is much like Paul’s: “In the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly” (2 Timothy 3:1-5 NLT).

The ending of Don’t Look Up took me by surprise. The student astrologist had met a lapsed evangelical who still believed in God. During a final dinner with the professor’s family, as the comet’s landing looms imminent, this believer offers a prayer for God’s protection. 

God wrote a better ending, for “we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13 NLT).

Because of Christ, the title of our script is Do Look Up, for our best role is yet to come!