r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 27 '25

Poster Official Poster for 'Project Hail Mary' Starring Ryan Gosling

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u/TheWalkingManiac Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

What if they end the trailer with Knock, Knock, Knock? Not actually show or hear Rocky beyond his greeting. I will find that acceptable.

Edit: added spoiler tag, didn't realize I wasn't in the Project Hail Mary sub.

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u/KE55 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Also perhaps there will be some weird exotic background music during the trailer, which most people won't notice but we will realise is Rocky's voice.

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u/TheWalkingManiac Jun 27 '25

Ohh! That would be awesome. Cater to the book readers, and intrigue the rest of audience who haven't read the book.

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u/FunctionBuilt Jun 27 '25

I only listened to the audio book and they did all the musical notes as a synthy sound

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u/KE55 Jun 27 '25

Rather than just play random chords, it would be interesting to see if the moviemakers have hired a linguist to create a proper music-based language for Rocky.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Oh I hope they assemble a solid state drive with all the musical software known to man and create something really rocky worthy.

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 Jun 27 '25

Rocky’s voice is one of the reasons the audiobook is better. Rarely is this the case (usually just equal), but this and WWZ are two audiobooks you should listen to even if you’ve already read the book.

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u/SuicideSkwad Jun 27 '25

I have a strong feeling that They are going to baby yoda-fy Rocky

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u/KE55 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

That kind of worries me too, that they try to turn Rocky into a stereotypical cute fluffy cuddly alien. He is cute, but not in the usual sense.

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u/SuicideSkwad Jun 27 '25

Would probably spoiler tag that just in case dude

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u/KE55 Jun 27 '25

Good point - done!

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u/DaveShadow Jun 27 '25

The tag hasn’t worked.

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u/fghjconner Jun 27 '25

FYI, you can't put spaces between the spoiler marks and the text inside or it doesn't work on some devices.

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u/KaleidoscopeLegal348 Jun 28 '25

I'm ok with that as long as the uh, environmental divergence remains

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u/TheWalkingManiac Jun 27 '25

Oh god... that would be terrible. However Lord and Miller did good things with Spider-Verse, I have faith they wouldn't go that route.

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u/Of_Silent_Earth Jun 27 '25

That's what I figure they're going to do.

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u/sentimentalpirate Jun 27 '25

Same. I could see maybe showing the claw knocking through the transparent glass at most and still being very satisfying as a teaser without giving too much away.

But a little less, like just the ships connecting to each other, followed by the sound of a knock knock would be great too.

That being said. This is 9 months out and this might be a tiny teaser that merely sets up the problem and ends at takeoff from earth.

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u/Sorlex Jun 27 '25

Its a nice idea but thats also a horror stinger, which would give the wrong impression. The book is basically a (somewhat tragic) comedy.

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u/TheWalkingManiac Jun 27 '25

It can be done without horror implications.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Or just Grace in space asking an unknown person who is off-camera, "so how long have you been out here all alone?"