Adam McKay believes his film Don’t Look Up — and its themes — are more relevant now than ever before. Although the movie was released more than three years ago and received mixed reviews from critics, it was popular with viewers. Don’t Look Up currently places second for the most watched movies of all time on Netflix.

When asked about the film's impact as one of the most watched movies on Netflix more than three years after its release, McKay said that in "the face of these dramatic catastrophe

But director Adam McKay has claimed that almost half a billion people watched the movie on the streamer, which would make it a massive success with audiences. "The estimates of how many people saw that movie – Netflix will never say exactly – but it’s somewhere between 400 million and half a billion," he told NME.

Adam McKay said in an interview with NME that his satirical comedy “Don’t Look Up” was seen by an estimated “400 million to half a billion” people on Netflix despite being “hated’ by “the critics and the cultural gatekeepers.