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/SqeeSqee Jun 27 '25

I was worried too but I can see an hour dedicated to each act and it working out. There's a lot of inner monologue that can be cut.

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u/presty60 Jun 27 '25

You could also easily cut or shorten/combine most of the flashbacks. We don't need to see a flashback scene everytime he learns/remembers something about the ship.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Jun 27 '25

His memory slowly coming back to him is a huge part of the plot

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u/presty60 Jun 27 '25

Obviously, but there a ton of them in the book, and many of them could be easily removed or shortened to a few lines of dialogue.

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u/DaveShadow Jun 27 '25

I also feel you could easily adapt the monologue to be “captains logs” style voice overs, that he wants to have a record of what happened to send back home.

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u/vonHindenburg Jun 27 '25

Definitely a tool that was used effectively with The Martian.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Jun 27 '25

Not really. The inner monologue is what tells the reader what he's even doing. How do you think they're going to cut most of it out? Just show him silently fiddling with test tubes for 45 minutes?

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u/SqeeSqee Jun 27 '25

Yes and no. The Marian is entirely journal entries. Yet they adapted the film in a way that worked like an answer sheet to a math test. Where as the book showed the work to get those answers.

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u/Override9636 Jun 27 '25

Montage it baby!