Last December, I broke the news that Netflix had dropped Adam McKay’s “Average Height, Average Build.” McKay then quickly jumped into a new project, this one about climate change. No plot details or casting had been announced.
Last month, I had hinted that McKay was involved in a project called “The Rising,” which had a plot involving sharks, hurricanes and “climate change,” but it looks like he’s only going to be producing that film.
What Jeff Sneider’s sources are saying is that McKay’s “climate change” movie is going to be tackling the most doom and gloom scenario imaginable for our planet, and he’s definitely directing this one. It’s called “Greenhouse,” and it’s set to star Sam Rockwell and Amy Adams, who also appeared in McKay’s 2018 Dick Cheney film “Vice.”
“Greenhouse” will be based on David Wallace-Wells’ 2019 book “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.” In ‘Uninhabitable Earth,’ Wallace-Wells' dives into various possibilities for Earth's future with the belief that, even with active intervention, the effects of climate change are inevitable and will have catastrophic impacts on our planet. Think of the worst possible scenarios — tsunamis, extinctions, disease outbreaks, fires, droughts, famines, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and wars — they’re all in Wallace-Wells’ book.
Although praised by many publications, Wallace-Wells’ book was not met without its fair share of criticism, including from noted climatologist Michael Mann — no, not the director — who called out the “blatant errors” in "The Uninhabitable Earth,” but also the pessimistic, exaggerated – and, at times, downright doomist – framing of the planet’s future.
So, this is what McKay will be adapting next. He’s coming off the ultra popular 2021 Netflix dramedy “Don’t Look Up,” which also tackled a doomsday scenario on earth. His other credits include “The Big Short,” “Vice” and “Anchorman.”