He suggests that the film serves more as a documentary of current social, political, and media behavior than as a fictional story.

“everything i know about news cycles talk shows social media and politics tells me the film was instead a documentary”

He used the comet in the movie as a narrative device to represent the climate crisis because it makes the threat feel more immediate and easier for the public to grasp than invisible atmospheric gases

“I thought by replacing climate uh the climate crisis with uh a comet which is something we all sort of mostly get like that's scary uh would put the spotlight on our messed up human reaction”