An Angelina Jolie wildfire movie is every disasterologist’s dream, but Those Who Wish Me Dead ignores our current nightmare. Instead of leaving us with a high from an action-packed Jolie film, we were left wondering why Hollywood isn’t doing more to help us through our collective anxieties in the midst of a pandemic and a revolving door of climate-related disasters. Advertisement In this time of uncertainty, we are craving a disaster narrator, someone to tell us what is happening, why, and what to do to fix it. That is the responsibility of disaster storytellers today: To hold the mirror up to us, show us our future with inaction, and then show us the pathway out.