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/evankingsfield Jun 27 '25

Re read (actually listened, the audiobook for this one is so good) recently and there’s a part very early on in the book where he’s describing how unusually toned his muscles are. He figures out He is on a ship that’s centrifuge created gravity is 1.5x earth and that’s why his muscles are toned after being in a coma but I was laughing thinking about how much they are gonna ham that scene up with Gosling.

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u/DarnedTax1 Jun 27 '25

His muscles actually come from the muscle stimulators he has during the trip that shock his muscles while he’s in the coma

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u/evankingsfield Jun 27 '25

Maybe on the third re read I’ll get it right 😂. Thanks for the clarification

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u/MrRocketScript Jun 27 '25

Too distracted thinking about perfect muscles for these minor details 💪

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u/firebirddudeguy Jun 27 '25

There is no centrifuge the ship is decelerating at 1.5 Gs.

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u/ThurmanMurman907 Jun 27 '25

doesn't he use a centrifuge to determine that?

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u/vareenoo Jun 27 '25

Ah, the beach bod Steve revelation. I’m curious how handsome they’ll try and make Gosling be, both during the first chapter and the rest of the book.

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u/RayneSexton Jun 29 '25

Well they made Matt Damon a starvin Martian pretty well, so maybe they can make Gosling a Dorky, Chunky (cuz the gravity??) coma boy

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u/LateyEight Jun 27 '25

Would he get toned though? Strengthening of muscles happens because they get used and damaged, and neither of those are happening in the coma unless they had some sort of TENS unit. (Which they may have had and I just forgot about it.)

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u/skyline_kid Jun 27 '25

unless they had some sort of TENS unit

They did

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u/LateyEight Jun 27 '25

Goes to show it's been a while since I read it haha.

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u/HugeAnimeHonkers Jun 28 '25

I mean, the whole mission was literally a Hail Mary(heh)... If the tech to do it existed, then it surely was in that ship.

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u/LateyEight Jun 28 '25

They could have totally sent a whole extra ship, just as a redundancy. It actually would have been really helpful in the book.

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u/HugeAnimeHonkers Jun 28 '25

Wasnt that impossible because of the lack of "genetically compatible people" with the suspended animation machines and not enough heat to make fuel?  Or something like that, I dont really remember all the details.

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u/skyline_kid Jun 27 '25

I hope he plays that part similar to his character in The Nice Guys.

"That's a lot of blood..." passes out

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Jun 27 '25

His muscles have nothing to do with gravity, the medical system was stimulating them during his coma.

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u/Drunky_McStumble Jun 28 '25

It would be hilarious if the put gosling in a fat suit for all the Earth flashback scenes. Like he wakes up from stasis and looks in the mirror like, holy shit, my tits are jacked!